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China wants to launch asteroid-deflecting rockets to save Earth from Armageddon – Livescience.com
Although the asteroid, Bennu, only has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth, scientists are taking the risk seriously.
Chinese scientists are planning to fire more than 20 rockets into space to divert an asteroid
impact that has a small chance of one day ending life on Earth
.
Their target is an asteroid named Bennu, a 85.5-million-ton (77.5 metric ton) space rock that…
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