Russia could start building a space rocket capable of destroying
asteroids threatening the Earth, chief of rocket and space corporation
Energia said Friday.
"There are three large asteroids, including Apophis, whose orbits cross
the Earth's orbit and which could hit the Earth in the next several
decades," Vitaly Lopota told the state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
To change the orbit of a small planet of Apophis' size, a 70-ton rocket
was needed to "tow" an asteroid away from Earth or to destroy it with a
thermonuclear blast, Lopota said.
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