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Yes, Russian scientists know and now, one might even say, they can fight with asteroids, which are written by leading world magazines, and This technology has been tested for the first time in the world.
Probably, the “experience” of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which, as scientists suggest, was shot down by some higher forces with using a laser, otherwise he would have done much more trouble if collapsed to the surface of the Earth in a “whole piece.” Moreover, this The 20-meter asteroid literally “went” to Chelyabinsk and could very well wipe this metropolis from the face of the planet. Suffice it to say that even fragments of it caused considerable damage to the city (estimated more than billion rubles), and doctors were consulted at that time (2013) thousands of people.
Russian scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology managed to create a model of an asteroid and destroyed it with a laser. This experiment allowed us to derive a formula that is accurate and a win-win, by which the force of impact is determined by the asteroid and the exact place on it (this is certainly a depression), according to who needs to strike this blow. For example, scientists say, for destruction of a 200-meter space body will require a blow by force 3 megatons of TNT. Such an explosion will break the asteroid into small, already safe shards. And this is the only way for today effective protection of the planet from such threats from space.
We’ll clarify that in the next hundred years they will fly to Earth maximum dangerous distance of the order of 800 asteroids, many of which are quite large. So, the largest can reach almost thousand kilometers in diameter, it’s clear that such a “present” space will simply destroy the Earth. But let’s hope that this is not will happen, especially since they are fighting for the Earth (judging by Chelyabinsk meteorite) and some unknown to us higher forces. But as they say in Russian proverb, hope for God, but don’t be fooled.
By the way, for an experiment to destroy asteroids MIPT scientists used fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite – for purity of the experiments. Of course, success was accompanied by Russian not for this reason, but …
Lasers Chelyabinsk
