Apocalyptic asteroids heading for Earth may be harder to destroy than the Hollywood sci-fi films would have us believe. Scientists studying just how easy it would be to blow up a life-threatening space rock found they are stronger and more resilient than previously imagined. Previous studies found this would completely obliterate the asteroid but Dr El Mir and his team added extra information to the test. 'It may sound like science fiction but a great deal of research considers asteroid collisions,' Dr El Mir said. 'We are impacted fairly often by small asteroids, such as in the Chelyabinsk event a few years ago,' added K. T Ramesh, director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute.

Source: Daily Mail March 04, 2019 17:48 UTC