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The planet Earth has endured unwelcome “visitations” of space rocks many times. NASA and agencies of other nations have proposed concepts on how asteroids, in possible collision with planet Earth, can be diverted. These methods range from impulsive techniques using explosives, conventional and nuclear, to the slow nudging action of a spacecraft with powerful thrust. A methods not described elsewhere in any research, as far as the author knows, is presented in this paper. The methods of electrostatics will be employed to show how the new deflection concept can be developed to avoid asteroid collision with Earth.
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Original Russian Text © E.A. Gonzaga, 2010, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 471–478.
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Gonzaga, E.A. A method of controlling asteroid collision with the Earth. Cosmic Res 48, 459–466 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001095251005014X
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S001095251005014X