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Questions about meteoroids and micrometeoroids, small solid extraterrestrial bodies traveling through interplanetary space. Meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere are called meteors, and remains of those that don't entirely burn or explode in the atmosphere and hit the ground are called meteorites.
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Using nukes to push an incoming meteoroid off course
It's often said (or at least, I have read it somewhere on some occasion), that using nukes to combat a potential incoming meteoroid is not viable because it may split it into multiple incoming bogies. …