Contribute ideas to deal with asteroids

The US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) received 402 ideas to help track asteroids that could attack the Earth in the future, as well as drag a small asteroid to orbit around the moon for the item. research destination.

These ideas are intended to respond to NASA's cooperation call, announced on June 18, in an effort to capitalize on the potential of the amateur or semi-professional science outside the space industry.

A total of two projects are required to contribute, first the Critical Challenge, with the goal of tracking all asteroids capable of turning into Earth's killer, according to Space.com.

One of the ideas supporting the asteroid capture project - (Photo: NASA)

NASA has found that about 95% of asteroids close to Earth have a diameter of 1 km or more, in the form of each plunging into the Earth's surface about 65 million years ago, sweeping out dinosaurs and "turning" to all other life.

However, the biggest challenge is still smaller asteroids, like the "culprit" almost attacked Chelyabinsk (Russia), on February 15, 2013. The probability of these asteroids 'firing' on Earth is every 100 years.

About one-third of the proposals that NASA received focused on project 1, and the rest suggested the idea for the project to send the robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and throw it into orbit around the moon to study gradually.

The US Congress has not yet decided to approve a $ 105 million budget at the request of President Barack Obama, to launch the mission to "capture" asteroids.