Paris (AFP)
Scientists are investigating the possibility of using a nuclear bomb to alter the path of an asteroid so it doesn’t hit Earth, according to a laboratory experiment in which researchers blasted a target the size of a small glass ball with X-rays .
Mary Burke, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, made computer simulations of the use of nuclear weapons with the aim of changing the path of an asteroid, stressing that the success of this step depends on having enough time after the mission. for the asteroid’s directional thrust to remove it from its path, and avoid its subsequent collision with Earth.
