A meteor burns up because it nears Earth, in contrast to asteroids that may hit the floor and wreak havoc
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Belief
How you can Kill an Asteroid
Robin George Andrews (W.W.Norton)
FOR a era of scientists – and science fiction followers – Hollywood motion pictures like Armageddon and Deep Affect have helped form and scare society. The danger of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out giant swathes of Earth and the people on it, are actual.
However as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in How you can Kill an Asteroid: The true science of planetary defence, the hazard…
