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Russia is capable of building machinery to fight the asteroid hazard, Federal Space Agency deputy head Viktor Remishevsky said on Tuesday. “The Russian missile industry is capable of manufacturing anti-asteroid systems if necessary,” he said. “So far, there are no techniques to use the existent space machinery for fighting asteroids.” The asteroid danger is not on the Federal Space Agency program. “If a method of suppressing this danger with space machinery is found, we will make such systems. Anyway, the missile industry can do that,” he said. Asteroids are a problem to be tackled through international cooperation, Remishevsky said. “Research...

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Killer asteroids more rare Satellite data show Earth threatened about once a millennium 11/21/2002 Associated Press Medium-size asteroids that could flatten a city the size of New York strike Earth less frequently than previously believed, possibly only about once a millennium, according to a study aided by military satellites. Rocky space debris created by collisions in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or chunks that break away from comets rain down on the Earth every day as meteroids, but most of the asteroid or comet pieces are tinier than grains of rice and quickly burn in the upper...