Thorndike@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarmEnglish
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1 year agoActually, a few mm/sec is quite a lot. That could easily be more than enough to deflect an asteroid from hitting earth. That few mm/sec will accumulate over the time it takes the asteroid to travel six million miles.
How unsafe is it? I’ve not seen any crash test results.