A meteor burns up because it nears Earth, in contrast to asteroids that may hit the floor and wreak havoc
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Find out how to 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 Influence have helped form and scare society. The chance of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out giant swathes of Earth and the people on it, are actual.
However as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in Find out how to Kill an Asteroid: The actual science of planetary defence, the hazard…
