Voice of America: Paintballs Proposed to Deflect Asteroids

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Paintballs Proposed to Deflect Asteroids Oct 26th 2012, 21:02 A U.S. scientist has proposed a novel way of deflecting a possible asteroid from hitting Earth - pelting it with paintballs. A graduate student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed the idea, winning this year's annual "Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition" sponsored by the United Nations. Sung Wook Paek says launching paintballs from space would not only cause a force that could push an asteroid slightly off course, but would also coat the ...

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