US Space researchers can possibly use nuclear weapons against incoming asteroids on the Earth. US scientists have been closely monitoring the threat of incoming asteroids.
Scientists at Los Alamos, the US government’s atomic weapons research center in New Mexico, believes that the threat of asteroids proceeding towards earth is much more than expected and can see only nuclear weapon as a way to destroy that asteroid or either to alter the way of asteroid.
"The goal is to study the effectiveness of using a nuclear explosive to alter the orbit, or destroy, a potentially harmful object," said Robert Weaver at Los Alamos in an abstract submitted to the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
According to the latest report of Times, Weaver and his team has plans to create computer simulations of a nuclear device detonating above an asteroid with an idea of deflecting it from its original path.
One member of Weaver said that we would have never thought that the size of asteroid would be so huge such that we have to take measures to destroy it. We only assumed that impacts it would cause would be negligible.
But we are now sure about its dimensions because sensor networks set up to monitor illicit nuclear tests have recorded a large number of mysterious explosions now known to be caused by asteroids hitting the Earth, usually in remote areas.
Weaver said that the bigger part of asteroid reaches the more catastrophic results would be. The risks include “a direct hit in an urban area (which may happen unlikely) and generation of tsunami in the areas closer to the coastline” he said.
In 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia also a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere of earth which weighed around 13,000 tons damaging around 7,000 buildings and injured 13,000 people.
Scientists at Los Alamos, the US government’s atomic weapons research center in New Mexico, believes that the threat of asteroids proceeding towards earth is much more than expected and can see only nuclear weapon as a way to destroy that asteroid or either to alter the way of asteroid.
"The goal is to study the effectiveness of using a nuclear explosive to alter the orbit, or destroy, a potentially harmful object," said Robert Weaver at Los Alamos in an abstract submitted to the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
According to the latest report of Times, Weaver and his team has plans to create computer simulations of a nuclear device detonating above an asteroid with an idea of deflecting it from its original path.
One member of Weaver said that we would have never thought that the size of asteroid would be so huge such that we have to take measures to destroy it. We only assumed that impacts it would cause would be negligible.
But we are now sure about its dimensions because sensor networks set up to monitor illicit nuclear tests have recorded a large number of mysterious explosions now known to be caused by asteroids hitting the Earth, usually in remote areas.
Weaver said that the bigger part of asteroid reaches the more catastrophic results would be. The risks include “a direct hit in an urban area (which may happen unlikely) and generation of tsunami in the areas closer to the coastline” he said.
In 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia also a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere of earth which weighed around 13,000 tons damaging around 7,000 buildings and injured 13,000 people.
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