Were asteroids the reason for the decline of the dinosaurs?
Actually, asteroids have been a worrying topic for scientists for a long time. There is only one question in everyone's mind that what would happen if a big asteroid collided with the Earth. Their concerns are not unfounded, as many asteroids will pass very close to us in the next 100 years. Apart from this, there is also a theory that due to the collision of asteroids, the dinosaurs collapsed millions of years ago. For this reason, ways to escape are increasingly being sought.
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A research has been published in this regard in the journal Acta Astronautica, whose lead author is Patrick King, a former scholar of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). They believe that if an asteroid comes close to Earth, then that danger can be avoided through nuclear power. Also explored were the different ways in which different asteroid orbits and different fragment velocity distributions would work together to affect the fragments. Although it is not as easy as it seems.
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What will be the effect on Earth?
According to Patrick King, the biggest challenge is estimating the orbit of the asteroid. If no other solution is found, then the asteroid can be stopped from approaching Earth through an atomic bomb. He said that before taking this step, it also has to be seen that how much negative effect it has on the earth and the people living on it. King said his study described a nuclear explosion as a last resort, but that scientists would try other measures if time permits.
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usually these things happen
By the way, most large asteroids leave the Earth's orbit from a distance of millions of kilometers. Many times small-sized meteorites have come into Earth's orbit, but they burn to ashes as soon as they come into the atmosphere, due to which there is no harm. A large asteroid will also break as soon as it enters the atmosphere, but its fragments will also be so large that they can bring destruction.
