what is being done to stop an asteroid colliding with the earth?

Question

stuff like what the government and NASA are doing
no go look somewhere else answers please

Answer 1

Not much other than cataloging them.

Right now we are as helpless as the dinosaurs were!

Answer 2

We're Creating Something (I Dont Know What it's Called) But It's A Space Ship Like Thing That Has An Anti - Gravity Field, So If An Asteroid Was Heading Towards Earth The Space Ship Would Be Heading Straight Towards The Asteroid Then It Would Use It's Anti - Gravity Field Against It And Push It A Little Off Course.

The Earth Would Be Saved.

Answer 3

The first step to preventing an asteroid impact with the Earth is to find all of the ones that could hit us and wipe out or severely damage human civilization. Any object greater than a kilometer or so across can wipe us off the face of the Earth, or at the very least take out a billion people or more. If found well in advance, we can prevent them from wiping us out. All that is needed is to prevent them and the Earth from being in the same point in space at the same time. Changing their velocity by a foot a second decades ahead of time would more than ensure a clean miss. The smaller objects also are a threat to us, but much harder to see and track. Even so, a stony asteroid less than 100 yards or so across won't make to the ground because of the atmosphere. There is a survey underway right now to locate these bringers of death and destruction before they find us. Already two asteroids have been met and orbited by spacecraft, with others getting looked over at close range. NASA launched the DAWN spacecraft to explore the large Main-Belt asteroids Ceres and Vesta. Before any effort could be made to move one away from a collision course with Earth, we have to know about their makeup, the strength of their materials and how they would respond to our efforts to nudge them away from a doomsday rendezvous with our planet. What is already clear is that bombing many asteroids with a nuclear warhead would be trading a single impactor for a swarm of smaller and still deadly impactors. Astronauts, engineers and astronomers are developing multiple techniques that would work on the smaller rocks and rubble piles. Steps are being taken right now to meet the threat, even though any actual impact might not come for many thousands of years.

Answer 4

The Department of Homeland Security has arranged for the Department of Transportation to errect Detour Signs way out in space which will recommend that all incoming asteroids travel elsewhere, or take alternate routes.

Answer 5

There's virtually nothing we can do, especially if it's coming from the direction of the sun. We won't see it until it's too late
We're only deluding ourselves if we think we can control situations like that.
Don't worry....we've all got to die sometime. I just don't want to know when.

Answer 6

Nothing. There is nothing we, as humans can do to prevent this. I'm looking forward to it.

Answer 7

nothing at all were all doomed!!!