The findings, published on September 23 in Nature Physics, showed some really amazing direct experimental evidence for how effective this technique can be, says Dawn Graninger, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. It's very impressive work.
Nathan Moore, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and his colleagues designed the experiment to simulate what might happen if a nuclear bomb was detonated near an asteroid. Previously, scientists have studied the momentum of a bomb's shock wave…
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