Mini-Comets Approaching Earth

[125gJoe]

Link: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/24mar_73p.htm?list237669

Even though there's no danger from this event, we really ought to look into some kind of 'deflection' contraption to prevent something really bad...


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[joephys]

There is always all sorts of stuff flying right at us. Lots of stuff enters our atmosphere all the time too. Most of it burns up. Really no way to stop anything comming at us that would do a lot of damage. Possibly the whole nuke it thing, but I don't think that would work either.