Great, so our only hope against a city-killer is that it politely agrees to be destroyed in a simulation.
Nuking 'City Killer' Asteroids: Scientists Run the Numbers
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore simulated nuking a 160-meter asteroid with a 1-megaton warhead, finding it could work but not as a surface blast. The results, published in The Planetary Science Journal, inform planetary defense planning, though real-world testing remains impossible.
Source: Nuking 'City Killer' Asteroids: Scientists Run the Numbers — ScienceAlert
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