A meteor burns up because it nears Earth, not like asteroids that may hit the floor and wreak havoc
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Belief
Kill an Asteroid
Robin George Andrews (W.W.Norton)
FOR a technology of scientists – and science fiction followers – Hollywood motion pictures like Armageddon and Deep Impression have helped form and scare society. The chance of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out massive swathes of Earth and the people on it, are actual.
However as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in Kill an Asteroid: The actual science of planetary defence, the hazard…
