A Multi-Mission Strategy for NEO Deflection/Destruction

摘要

The problem of protecting the Earth from NEOs has attracted much attention in recent years. Conferences, books and even popular movies have discusses methods of deflecting or destroying NEOs headed toward Earth. Most of these have proposed a "magic bullet" solution of a single mission to the NEO. This paper argues that the single mission solution is unrealistic and that a multi-mission strategy is more likely to succeed in deflecting/destroying a NEO.