{"id":1770,"date":"2016-08-24T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T07:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2016-08-02T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T14:11:05","slug":"the-ultimate-celestial-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Celestial Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the doomsday movies which predict the end of Earth as we know it because of a celestial body hitting into it, it&#8217;s no surprise the scientists in Russia did something about the potential threat. Using the SKIF Cyberia supercomputer the Russian scientists simulated the \u00c2\u00a0nuclear explosion of an asteroid in such a manner that none of the resulting fragments would come down to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>This is aimed at disposing of potentially threatening celestial bodies that may be on a direct collision course with the Earth. The current computer simulation took a target the size of the asteroid Apophis which is actually likely to cross quite close to us in 2029. It was estimated that an impact of a nuclear detonation with energy of nearly one megatron would be required to liquidate the asteroid into gases and liquids.<\/p>\n<p>A rocket would be used to send the implosive device to the approaching asteroid to ensure that no piece it breaks into will be larger than 10 meters. As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Catapults,-Gears-and-Pulleys-For-Your-Homeschool-Science-Curriculum&amp;id=2341163\">science project <\/a>this is the minimum required for the safety of planet Earth. It is good to know that a potential threat to humanity can be dealt with using the methods in this simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the doomsday movies which predict the end of Earth as we know it because of a celestial body hitting into it, it&#8217;s no surprise the scientists in Russia did something about the potential threat. Using the SKIF Cyberia supercomputer the Russian scientists simulated the \u00c2\u00a0nuclear explosion of an asteroid in such a manner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}