Letter: First class post - 24 February 2018

Published 21 February 2018

Too crude. Better to gently nudge them away into a different, safe orbit using thrusters Anirudh Shobhanan disagrees with the Deflector Selector algorithm on nuking Earth-threatening asteroids (17 February, p 6)

Issue no. 3166 published 24 February 2018

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