Laser saved Earth from an asteroid (video)

A group of physicists at the California Institute created in the laboratory, laser, able to stop an asteroid on approach to Land. Scientists thus hope to protect our planet from not petition the visitors from outer space.

Own setting scientists called DE-STAR - Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploration, which can be translated as the directed energy System for targeting of asteroids and exploration. In laboratory conditions, with DE-STAR experts have already managed to slow down and stop an object similar to an asteroid and then to adjust the trajectory of its movement.

For testing laser scientists have created conditions similar to space, but as the asteroid used basalt. The laser light on the conditional asteroid until that time, has not yet begun the process of evaporation. The release of substances generated opposite and equal reaction, or the acceleration that led to the stop of the space object and change the direction of its rotation.

"Our laboratory experience demonstrates a way to stop the rotation of the asteroid or to put it the other way. All the evidence suggests that this development is perfectly working", - quotes the head of research physicist Philip Lubin, California Institute in Santa Barbara to Russia Today.

It should be noted, in may this year at NASA claimed that already in the next decade starts the mission "capture" of asteroids. In the American space Agency is scheduled to deduce the cosmic body at a stable earth orbit, where they will explore the astronauts.

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