Other, more experimental ideas exist. Lasers could vaporize part of the asteroid to create a thrust effect, pushing it off course. A "gravity tractor," a large spacecraft that slowly tugs the ...

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Hitting them just right can produce that debris-like thrust effect, but if you hit them too hard, you’ll shatter them.” He goes on to explain the danger of "disrupting" an asteroid.

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