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The ballast acts like an anchor, changing the asteroid's center of gravity and diverting its trajectory over the course of 20 to 50 years, depending on the size of the rock being moved and the weight of the ballast. At the same time, in the United States, a band like R.E.M. A spacecraft zipping through the solar system obeys the same principles, exerting a gravitational pull directly proportional to its mass and inversely proportional to the distance between it and another object. Now, compared to an asteroid, which might have the mass of Mount Everest, a spacecraft is pretty puny, but its gravity can still make things happen. You might classify nuclear weapons or kinetic impactors as instant-gratification solutions because their success (or failure) would be immediately apparent. Even with a success under their belt, scientists acknowledge the enormous challenge of such a mission. In this case, the cue ball is an unmanned spacecraft similar to the probe used in NASA's Deep Impact mission (not to be confused with the movie). When mission engineers slammed the Deep Impact probe into the surface of the Tempel 1 comet in 2005, it was slated to deliver 19 gigajoules of kinetic energy.

Instead, they envision parking an unmanned probe in orbit around an offending rock, then aiming a laser at the object's surface. Then again, why not use the orbiting spacecraft without all of the tricks and gimmicks? The Steelers seemed primed to respond, driving to the Patriots 39, but the Patriots defense clamped down again, and the Steelers punted. In plain view of a busy park, they climbed the ladder to a window, broke the glass with their towel-wrapped elbows and, after only a few minutes, exited by sliding down a rope. And what if the darn thing breaks down? Turn the page to learn how the behavior of billiard balls just might save our planet. Not to take batting practice, but to save the world? The European Space Agency's take on a kinetic impactor is dubbed Don Quijote and calls for two spacecraft -- an orbiter named Sancho and an impactor named Hidalgo. Trailing behind its companion, Hidalgo would arrive with all the intelligence it needed to make a pinpoint strike. Electromagnetic energy produced by the sun applies pressure to any object in the solar system.

Astronomers like to call it solar, or radiation, pressure and have long thought this stream of energy could be a source of propulsion for rockets. As crazy as it sounds, astronomers have an idea to do just that. So let's throw that question out the window and focus on the top 10 ways to stop a killer asteroid, no matter how crazy (or costly) they seem on paper. And on the day of the challenge, they can probably figure out which ingredient it is based upon which shopping list has been purchased for them. They had a feeder tube and a wheel assembly to shoot the balls out at 50 to 60 miles (80 to 97 kilometers) an hour. The kinetic energy of a struck cue ball is what gets transferred to other balls on the table. Kinetic energy depends on both the mass and speed of an object, so a small object moving fast still has a lot of energy. Every object in the universe, even something as small as a pebble, has gravity. You can't feel a pebble's gravity because its mass is so small, but it's still there, tugging away on anything that comes close. You’re deeply in tune this week, and while that’s a gift, it may also feel overwhelming.