Planetary Defense: Nuking Dangerous Asteroids

[Atlas]

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This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids as of 2013:
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (Source: NASA Maps Dangerous Asteroids That May Threaten Earth (http://www.space.com/22369-nasa-asteroid-threat-map.html))

Nuking Dangerous Asteroids Might Be the Best Protection, Expert Says

If a dangerous asteroid appears to be on a collision course for Earth, one option is to send a spacecraft to destroy it with a nuclear warhead. Such a mission, which would cost about $1 billion, could be developed from work NASA is already funding, a prominent asteroid defense expert says.

An anti-asteroid spacecraft would deliver a nuclear warhead to destroy an incoming threat before it could reach Earth, Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center (http://www.adrc.iastate.edu/) at Iowa State University, said. The two-section spacecraft would consist of a kinetic energy impactor that would separate before arrival and blast a crater in the asteroid. The other half of the spacecraft would carry the nuclear weapon, which would then explode inside the crater after the vehicle impacted.

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The goal would be to fragment the asteroid into many pieces, which would then disperse along separate trajectories. Wie believes that up to 99 percent or more of the asteroid pieces could end up missing the Earth, greatly limiting the impact on the planet. Of those that do reach our world, many would burn up in the atmosphere and pose no threat.

Wie's study has focused on providing the capability to respond to a threatening asteroid on short notices of a year or so. The plan would be to have two spacecraft on standby — one primary, the other backup — that could be launched on Delta 4 rockets. If the first spacecraft failed on launch or didn't fragment the asteroid, the second would be sent aloft to finish the job.

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A nuclear weapon is the only thing that would work against an asteroid on short notice, Wie added. Other systems designed to divert an asteroid such as tugboats, gravity tractors, solar sails and mass drivers would require 10 or 20 years of advance notice.

Source: http://www.space.com/21333-asteroid-nuke-spacecraft-mission.html

[yelik]

As I understand they've already got numerous particle beam weapons in space, some of which are more powerful than nuclear. Also ET does not appear to approve of nuclear explosions, especially in space.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

the story a couple years back about them "nuking the moon" makes a ton more sense considering this asteroid threat.

could the moon detonation have been an expensive prototype practice run for the asteroid busters?

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Project A119, also known as "A Study of Lunar Research Flights", was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology, and had the explosive device not entered into a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and who were also working on a similar project.

Neither the Soviet project E-4 nor the US Project A119 were ever carried out, being cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, with the potential militarization of space that it would also have signified, and because a moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike.

The existence of the US project was revealed in 2000 by a former executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Leonard Reiffel, who led the project in 1958. A young Carl Sagan was part of the team responsible for predicting the effects of a nuclear explosion in low gravity and in evaluating the scientific value of the project. The project documents remained secret for nearly 45 years, and despite Reiffel's revelations, the United States government has never officially recognized its involvement in the study.


The scientific objectives of Project A119 would have been the detonating of a "smallish" nuclear device (1700+ tons of TNT) on the Moon in order to facilitate research into its geologic make-up".[13] This could have been attempted by non-nuclear means, for example, using the much lower yield explosion created by the water prospecting Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which was launched in 2009 and released the "Centaur" kinetic energy impactor, with a mass of 2,305 kilograms (5,082 lb) and an impact velocity of about 9,000 km/h (5,600 mph).[23]

The question of if LCROSS would find water had been stated to be influential in whether or not the United States government pursues creating a Moon base.[24] On November 13, 2009, NASA confirmed that water was detected after the Centaur impacted the crater.[25] The LCROSS "Centaur" kinetic energy impactor was however underpowered and therefore only partially successful, having not produced the expected earth visible flash, nor succeeding in excavating and vaporizing enough subsurface material for a complete lunar soil spectral analysis, that would identify the lunar soil composition to a high depth.[26][27]




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[observer]

Nuking asteroids on a collision course with earth is such a poorly advised plan.

There is no guarantee to how many meteor fragments will result or how large some of those fragments might be. All of this resulting asteroid material will come raining-down on the planet with no predictability as to where it may land.

A much better plan would be to divert the course of any threatening asteroid using already available space technology firmly planted on the asteroid surface. A controlled diversion could include sending the threat into the sun where it would burn-up with no consequence.

Nuking inbound asteroids sounds to me like a perfect way to depopulate the human occupancy of the planet.

Oh wait !!! That sounds just like what the Global Elite have been planning - silly me....

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Nuking asteroids on a collision course with earth is such a poorly advised plan.

There is no guarantee to how many meteor fragments will result or how large some of those fragments might be. All of this resulting asteroid material will come raining-down on the planet with no predictability as to where it may land.

A much better plan would be to divert the course of any threatening asteroid using already available space technology firmly planted on the asteroid surface. A controlled diversion could include sending the threat into the sun where it would burn-up with no consequence.

Nuking inbound asteroids sounds to me like a perfect way to depopulate the human occupancy of the planet.

Oh wait !!! That sounds just like what the Global Elite have been planning - silly me....

hopefully the nukes will divert the asteroids course,
fragment it enough that our atmosphere can burn off the large chunks,

i agree that it's "dirty", but they used the same thinking to hold back "Orion project" in recent years..
we could have had a colony pretty far away by now, if only people had figured out a sustainable path for using the tech.

maybe it is a dead end like some people say, Tes was too dead by the time the tests happened to say otherwise eh?

[Cidersomerset]

As I understand they've already got numerous particle beam weapons in space, some of which are
more powerful than nuclear. Also ET does not appear to approve of nuclear explosions, especially in space.

I was watching one of the moon hoax vids yesterday , I cannot remember which one and
they were talking about the US in the 1960's detonated a hydrogen bomb in space
hoping to blow a hole in the Van Allen belt. It did not work and created an extra radiation
band. I wonder if that panicked ET ?


Military Insanity
By Jim Kirwan 2-16-14

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When the Military, in this country, became aware of the existence of the Van Allen Belt, which
surrounds the earth: Their reaction to this phenomena was to fire a nuclear missile into it ­
“to see what happens”.

“WASHINGTON (UPI) -- In 1964, a U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts surrounding
the earth almost permanently ended the U.S. space program, according to retired Gen. Ken
Hannegan of the Defense Nuclear Agency. Hannegan spoke recently with United Press International.”

k) What this did do, was to affect the global- weather conditions in the radiation belt for the
next 25 years, negatively. This was only one atomic bomb, in 1964: What is at issue now is
the potential for a third World War with nuclear weapons worldwide?

“Hannegan acknowledged that during a 1964 test for a new U.S. anti-satellite weapon system,
the United States fired an atomic bomb of about 50 KT (or two and a half times the strength of
the Nagasaki bomb) in the Van Allen belts -- areas of radiation and charged particles which
surround the earth's upper atmosphere and which are held in place by the earth's magnetic field.

According to former Lockheed scientist Maxwell Hunter, who worked on the program, "It was a
military idea -- that you might be able to create a weapon by artificially pumping up radiation in
the belts by detonating explosions in them and trapping the radiation."” (1) (2)


http://www.rense.com/general96/milinsan.html

[Rollo]

Nukes are well tested on our ground!

0P01lIvpZA8

To some extent this could be a solution to stop asteroids but so many irresponsible things were done by the people "pushing" the button.
And so few if non of any good. Science is a religion and like any religion has it's extremists.

[ghostrider]

I'll give you a prediction , unless the world unites for the common good , there is an asteroid that could impact between the north sea and the black sea , causing a tear in the ocean floor ... many lives will be lost ... April 13th 2029 ... our science says it won't hit us , the ET's say yes it will ... they call it the Red Meteor , it's size is 350 meters ...