Got ‘Roids?”
Posted by StormWarning on 01 Mar 2008 at 09:27 pm | Tagged as: Commentary, Current Affairs, Disasters, Future Vision, Opinions, Science, Technology
Avoiding a future deep impact syndrome…with the shooting down of the U.S. Spy Satellite, the question of dealing with a real life “Deep Impact” (1998), students in the Technion Institute’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering recently developed a model for deflecting heavenly bodies that could damage Earth. The model was developed out of fear that an asteroid (Apophis) could collide with Earth in 2036.
In the 1998 movie, “Deep Impact,” Robert Duvall sacrificed his life and his crew in a successful effort to destroy the larger of the two asteroids — The Technion model was been created and was presented at a competition of NASA and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The plan? Here’s a depiction of the spacecraft.
Check out the paper.
Apophis, Deep Impact, roids, Technion Institute
