Here Are 5 Ways To Prevent A Killer Asteroid From Colliding With The Earth

When it comes to dangerous asteroids striking Earth, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. We have begun to track projectiles large enough to destroy our planet, and we are in the clear for the foreseeable future. However, there are countless asteroids large enough to take out an entire city that we cannot see.Show more

If you’ve ever watched the movie Armageddon, you know what we are talking about. There is a high probability that sometime in the future we would have to resort to those kinds of actions to save our planet. There is a reason to believe that it hasn’t been the first time an asteroid of large proportions changed the course of history when it fell on the Earth and wreaked havoc on it. The dinosaurs as species were wiped of the face of the Earth by an asteroid that hit the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, triggering a series of changes in the Earth’s climate and biodiversity.

The first thing to do when under the threat of an asteroid hitting our only home is trying to locate it sooner rather than later. Efforts have been made to scan as much of the dark sky for flying rocks that are bigger than 500m, so that we are aware of their approach, but it’s still unclear as to where those smaller than 500m are. They are just like a grain of sand in the vastness of space. Other ways of dealing with them include finding a way to change their trajectory, whether by kinetic or gravitational force.