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China Wants to Fire Rocket to Save Earth from Asteroids

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Scientist China planning to fire more than 20 rocket into space to divert impact asteroid dangerous to Earth. The target of this Chinese scientist is an asteroid named Determining.

Bennu is a space rock that weighs an estimated 85.5 million tons and is in the outer path, at a distance of 7.5 million km from Earth. Bennu is expected to approach Earth between the years 2175 and 2199.

Quotes Live Science, Monday (12/7/2021), despite the opportunity asteroid Bennu crashing into the Earth is quite thin, which is only 1: 2,700, an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building can cause a major disaster if it collides with Earth.

It is stated that the approximate kinetic energy of the collision Determining with Earth being 1,200 megatons, about 80 thousand times greater than the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. In comparison, an asteroid that once destroyed dinosaurs produces kinetic energy of about 100 million megatons.

Reported Live Science, scientists at China’s National Center for Space Science calculated that 23 Long March 5 rockets, each of 992 metric tons, could propel asteroid Bennu simultaneously to divert Bennu’s route, away from Earth.

Scientists calculate, the total diversion is as far as 9,000 km or 1.4 times the radius of the Earth. These calculations are detailed in a new study to be published in the journal Icarus in November.

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