Could we deflect it in time?

If an asteroid presented a real threat to Earth, would we find a way to deflect it? In the Daily Mail, Michael Thomsen reports,

A team of scientists at MIT have developed a computer program that will help humans decide how to best deal with the end of the world, so long as that comes in form of a catastrophic asteroid collision.

Experts say there as many as two or three new asteroids, sometimes called 'Near Earth Objects,' discovered every night.

It’s inevitable that one of these asteroids will eventually end drifting into a collision course with Earth.



A team of scientists from MIT have developed a new computer program to help simulate all the possible approaches to dealing with an asteroid on a trajectory for Earth

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