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Planetary Defense Team Designs a Spacecraft to Deflect Asteroids

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect asteroids that are Earth-bound, and evaluated whether it would be able to nudge a massive asteroid — which has a remote chance of hitting Earth in 2135 — off course. The design and case ...