Description of a NASA Study to Deflect Hazardous Asteroids

C. Maccone.

Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei, In: A. M. Finkelstein, W. F. Huebner, V. A. Shor (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference “Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009”, StP: Nauka, 347–361 (2010)

Ключевые слова: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), deflection of NEOs, asteroid 99942 Apophis, asteroid test-case, ways of achieving deflection, Nuclear Deflection, Kinetic Deflection, a two-mirror Solar Collector

Аннотация

In January 2007 this author served as Principal Investigator (P. I.) for the Kinetic Deflection of NEOs during a Study conducted by NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA