{"id":115824,"date":"2009-12-30T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/12\/30\/russia-in-secret-plan-to-save-earth-from-asteroid-official.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:06:33","slug":"russia-in-secret-plan-to-save-earth-from-asteroid-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115824","title":{"rendered":"Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFP<\/a>
\nWednesday, Dec 30th, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on
\na plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a
\ngiant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia\u2019s space agency
\nsaid Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will soon hold a closed meeting of our
\ncollegium, the science-technical council to look at what can be
\ndone\u201d to prevent the asteroid Apophis from slamming into the
\nplanet in 2036, Anatoly Perminov told Voice of Russia radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking about people\u2019s lives,\u201d Perminov was quoted by news agencies as telling the radio station.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter to spend a few hundred million dollars to create a
\nsystem for preventing a collision than to wait until it happens and
\nhundreds of thousands of people are killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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