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Our Survival Might One Day Rely on Nuking a 'City Killer' Asteroid. Scientists Just Tested Whether It'll Work
Add ScienceAlert on Google (Victor Habbick Visions/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If an asteroid above a certain size ever gets clos…
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Add ScienceAlert on Google (Victor Habbick Visions/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If an asteroid above a certain size ever gets close enough to Earth, humanity may be in serious trouble. Even a relatively small space rock – around the size of a football field – would be large enough to completely destroy a city.
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