Simulation of Asteroid Destruction to Bomb

Countless, space rock striking the Earth. One was at 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid hit Earth and lead dinosaur species extinction.
Also which falls on June 30, 1908, at 7:14 in the interior Podkamennaya, Tunguska, Siberia. Although not causing casualties, the incident leveling and making scorched 500,000 acres of forest. Imagine if the asteroid that crashed in a densely populated area.
Scientists are turning the brain, how to prevent asteroid disasters for mankind. One was conducted in the Laboratory of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the United States government.
Scientists there designing skrenario launch powerful one megaton nuclear bomb into asteroids that threaten Earth. Expect giant explosion generated will save the planet.

This simulation it sounds like Hollywood science fiction film, but in fact it was designed by intelligent scientists. The experts at Los Alamos using supercomputers to model nuclear weapons in order to ensure the effectiveness of anti-asteroid.
In the simulation, the researchers asked sized asteroid handle length of 500 meters using one megaton nuclear bomb - a strength 50 times that of the force of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II.
Although only just virtual test, the scientists say, treatment is successful. "In the end, the power of a nuclear bomb megaton asteroid will smash into a million pieces. Way will reduce the danger of asteroids initially," said Los Alamos scientist, Bob Weaver in a video released by the lab, as published by the Daily Mail.
This finding is very important. For, "if one object asteroid is expected to arrive in a few months away, there is a potential cause destruction on a global scale," he added.
To simulate this, the team used supercomputers to force 32,000 times the power of the processor in a regular computer. In order to obtain accurate results may be related to what happened.
Fortunately, the plan works, it means that no weapons should be brought to the surface of the asteroid as skrenario in the film Armageddon, starring Bruce Willis.
However, the researchers emphasize, the use of nuclear weapons is only a last resort giant. Researchers are also investigating other methods, including using spacecraft, also utilizes the gravitational pull of the planet to change its course.