Protecting the Earth against the possibility of colliding with meteors is the subject of a scientific conference opening on September 17 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientist Konstantin Eduardovich
Tsiolkovsky, the father of the world space travel industry, in Kaluga (Russia), his home town. Russian scientists proposed the establishment of a planetary protection system called ' Citadel '. Director of Russian Anatoly Space Agency
Perminov said the Russian Space Agency had drafted proposals for space research from now until 2040, which included a proposal to establish a system to protect the Earth from meteorites after 2026.
According to scientists' calculations, in 2029 Apophis meteorite will fly across the Earth at a distance of 40,000km and in 2036 the probability of this meteorite's impact on the Earth is very high.
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