How Humanity Could Deflect a Giant Killer Asteroid

Friday, November 22, 2013 - 08:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Humanity has the skills to deflect a killer asteroid of virtually any size — even one as big as the 6-mile-wide behemoth that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago — as long as the space rock is spotted with enough lead time, experts say.

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