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Articles tagged: nuclear bomb

  • asteroid collision, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), Near Earth Asteroid, nuclear bomb 11 October 2021 Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says

    ... of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. While the film is fictional, using a nuclear bomb to disrupt an asteroid is not as far-fetched as it sounds, say a team of scientists who have...

    • asteroid collision
    • Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
    • Near Earth Asteroid
    • nuclear bomb
  • microgravity November 2016 Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus

    ..., space missions were directly linked to military projects. Launcher technologies were developed with the goal of transporting nuclear bombs from one continent to another. As the capacities increased, the USSR and the USA became capable of sending...

    • microgravity
    Authors: Antoine Joly-Battaglini    
  • Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects, nuclear flashlamps, SETI, Tim Livengood February 2016 Nuclear Flashlamps in Space

    ...space propulsion of large objects. Spacecraft designs envision pitching nuclear bombs out the back door, one by one, to ...many there are and of what size. Spacecraft designs envision pitching nuclear bombs out the back door, one by one, to detonate and...

    • Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects
    • nuclear flashlamps
    • SETI
    • Tim Livengood
    Authors: Tim Livengood    
  • Anatoly V Zaitsev, asteroid collision, Barringer Crater, Near Earth Objects, Planetary Defence Centre July 2014 Preventing catastrophic impact

    ... an asteroid that is 100 metres across you would need a one-kiloton nuclear bomb. Asteroids that are a few hundred metres wide could be blown up with a megaton nuclear device. Today’s rockets are more than capable of carrying such...

    • Anatoly V Zaitsev
    • asteroid collision
    • Barringer Crater
    • Near Earth Objects
    • Planetary Defence Centre
    Authors: Anatoly V. Zaitsev    
  • Global Space Governance Study, Joseph Pelton, McGill, Ram Jakhu, Scott Madry February 2016 Defending Earth against cosmic hazards

    ...solar radiation but by cosmic radiation originating from the nuclear reactions in stars, from novae and supernovae and ...tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and blocked out the Sun with an ensuing cloud of dust, was termed a ‘nuclear winter’. This mass ...

    • Global Space Governance Study
    • Joseph Pelton
    • McGill
    • Ram Jakhu
    • Scott Madry
    Authors: Joseph N. Pelton     Ram Jakhu     Scott Madry    
  • Asteroid Day, asteroids, B612 Foundation, Ed Lu June 2015 Finding asteroids before they find us

    ...30 times more energy than was released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima, it blew out windows, destroyed buildings..., we studied multiple options, from exploding a nuclear bomb near the asteroid to more recently sending robotic spacecraft...

    • Asteroid Day
    • asteroids
    • B612 Foundation
    • Ed Lu
    Authors: Ed Lu    
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