Solar Sail Arrays Could Be Used to Divert Incoming Asteroids by Shading Them From the Sun
Most asteroid diversion schemes tend to involve some kind of impact – an explosion, a crash, a violent shove – but a French researcher has proposed an intriguing plan to alter the course of the asteroid Apophis before it swings into Earth’s neighborhood in 2036: offer the asteroid some shade. A fleet of solar sail spacecraft could shift Aphophis’s course by simply shielding it from solar radiation, the researcher says.
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dark side, I should say…
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when i saw this i was like… combee?
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Or we could send giant robots...those asteroids. 8D
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