NASA has always been upto different kinds of inventions and this time it is now different.
According to Latest news NASA and a Company named Honeybee Robotics are jointly building a shotgun for the Asteriods.
Now, you must think that it is going to destroy those asteroids coming towards the Earth, But to your amazement it is not going to do that. Instead it is a Radar System that would measure the Asteroids Geometrical properties to see if a probe can be sent to that Asteroids or not.
According to Honey bee Robotics.
“the unknown geotechnical properties and strength of the asteroid regolith.”
The space shotgun helps lower this risk because the balls it fires at the asteroid can help scientists estimate its surface strength.
There is no working model of the space gun yet and it's still in conceptual phase, But if made it can help astronomy in lot.
and According to bgr.com
"So for example, if a ball is fired at an asteroid and it cracks open on the surface, then we’ll know the asteroid is likely sturdy enough to land on with a probe. Or if the balls bounce back off the asteroid’s surface, they should bounce back at a velocity that correlates with the rock’s overall strength. The gun could even fire balls designed to make craters in the asteroid to give researchers an estimate of how hard the surface of the asteroid might be."
And here is a Video giving further explanation of the concept.
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