How a paintball gun in space could deflect a 27
gigaton asteroid away from Earth
MIT researchers found that coating asteroid in paint could affect its reflectivity, altering its course Researcher has been awarded a major UN prize
While Hollywood has focused on huge amounts of explosives or spacecraft on a kamikaze mission to deflect asteroids, Us expert say the reality could be a little simpler - and stranger. Researchers believe a very pale asteroid would reflect sunlight, and say that over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course. However, asteroids are made of dark rock - so the team proposed using a large space based paintball gun to coat it with white paint Violent images in movies, TV or computer games CAN act as triggers for aggression, says new
full of paint powder, launched in two rounds from a spacecraft
If timed just right, researchers say
report
at relatively close distance, would cover the front and back of
pellets full of paint powder,
an asteroid, more than doubling its reflectivity, or albedo.
gigaton asteroid away from Earth
MIT researchers found that coating asteroid in paint could affect its reflectivity, altering its course Researcher has been awarded a major UN prize
While Hollywood has focused on huge amounts of explosives or spacecraft on a kamikaze mission to deflect asteroids, Us expert say the reality could be a little simpler - and stranger. Researchers believe a very pale asteroid would reflect sunlight, and say that over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course. However, asteroids are made of dark rock - so the team proposed using a large space based paintball gun to coat it with white paint Violent images in movies, TV or computer games CAN act as triggers for aggression, says new
full of paint powder, launched in two rounds from a spacecraft
If timed just right, researchers say
report
at relatively close distance, would cover the front and back of
pellets full of paint powder,
an asteroid, more than doubling its reflectivity, or albedo.
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