Tag: protecting Earth

• Bathing asteroids with nuclear weapons

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A gentle nudge with a nuke: deflecting Earth-bound asteroids From Ars Technica: In 2013, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The sonic boom from the […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 27, 2015

  Ars Technica

  asteroid moons, asteroids, nuclear weapons, planetary science, protecting Earth, space exploration