[UPI] Israeli scientists say they are studying how Earth might avoid a collision with an asteroid, as fictionally shown in the 1998 movie "Armageddon." Noah Brosch, director of Tel Aviv University's Wise Observatory, and doctoral student David Polishook said the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth are very real. Astrophysicists agree the best method for avoiding a catastrophic collision would be to change the path of the asteroid heading toward our planet, said Polishook, but for that to work, scientists need to be able to predict what would happen in such an explosion. Blowing up an asteroid might create many equally dangerous smaller asteroids.
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