Destroying asteroids with nuclear weapons who said you could not?

ADS HERE Films like Armageddon film led to the idea that a threat to the planet as a giant asteroid on a collision could be avoided thanks to nuclear weapons. On the big screen we watched a lot kiloton atomic bomb was capable of splitting in half a huge rock star to save us all good thanks to Bruce Willis. But it's lacked time to ensure that many scientists that it was just that, a dummy measure it would do in a real case.

The interesting thing is that now a group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have taken up the idea and surprisingly, the verdict is yes: you can launch nuclear missiles to get rid of dangerous asteroids.

In reaching this conclusion have created a virtual model using a super-computer processors comprising totaling 32,000 cores total. In the simulation (you can see in the video below) recreate the impact of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb power on the surface of a large asteroid. The end result is just divided into a number of mini-space rocks, in the case of continuing their journey to Earth, they would disintegrate when entering the atmosphere or destroying asteroids with nuclear weapons who said you could not?

Films like Armageddon film led to the idea that a threat to the planet as a giant asteroid on a collision could be avoided thanks to nuclear weapons. On the big screen we watched a lot kiloton atomic bomb was capable of splitting in half a huge rock star to save us all good thanks to Bruce Willis, but lacked time to ensure that many scientists that it was just that, a dummy measure it would do in a real case.

The interesting thing is that now a group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have taken up the idea and, surprisingly, the verdict is yes: you can launch nuclear missiles to get rid of dangerous asteroids.

In reaching this conclusion have created a virtual model using a super-computer processors comprising totaling 32,000 cores. In the simulation (you can see in the video below) recreate the impact of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb power on the surface of a large asteroid. The end result is just divided into a number of mini-space rocks, in the case of continuing their journey to earth, they would disintegrate when entering the atmosphere or the impact on the ground would have relatively small consequences compared .

Still, these scientists say of having to choose a method, choose to send some sort of probe that was able to alter the asteroid's trajectory to avoid impact with our planet, less violent and less cinematic but apparently even more effective.e impact on the ground would have relatively small consequences compared .

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