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Gravity Tractor

NASA engineers propose that a spacecraft could use its gravitational pull to divert a deadly asteroid if it were on a collision course with Earth.

Gravity Tractor
SOURCE: Nature journal | Illustration by Dan Durda, B612 Foundation | GRAPHIC: By Seth Hamblin, The Washington Post - November 10, 2005

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