If the dangerous asteroid departs towards to Earth, one of options will be sending the spaceship, which will destroy it a nuclear bomb.
Such mission which will cost about $1 billion can be developed in NASA, for protection against asteroids. Bong Wie, the director of the Research center at university of the State of Iowa, described system which develops it team, for visitors at the International conference on space development in La-Hoya, California, on May 23.
The anti-asteroid spaceship delivers the nuclear bomb to destroy threats before they will be able to reach Earth. The two-section spaceship will consist of an impact of kinetic energy, which will separate for crater creation in an asteroid. Other part of the spacecraft will bear the nuclear weapon, which will explode in an asteroid crater.
The purpose will consist in division of an asteroid into a set of parts, which then will disperse on separate trajectories.
Wie considers that 99 percent of parts of an asteroid will fly by Earth that considerably limits impact on a planet. What will overtake Earth, will burn down in the atmosphere and don’t pose any threat.
