Some people think HAARP was built to trigger natural disasters, but it may, in fact, help to save Earth one day.
at the time. The experiment aimed to learn about the interior of the asteroid, which could one day help design an effective Earth-saving mission in case this or another space rock were to intersect our planet's path.
"We will be analyzing the data over the next few weeks and hope to publish the results in the coming months," Mark Haynes, lead investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a The asteroid, known as 2010 XC15, is about 500 feet wide and classified as potentially hazardous, which means it makes regular close approaches to Earth and could possibly one day hit the planet.
Gathering data about the distribution of matter inside the asteroid could help engineers design a more effective deflection mission if it was ever needed. NASA tested such an approach in September last year when its
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