International researchers, including Israelis at Tel Aviv University, have revealed the nature of 'separated asteroids' – an understanding that could help the most powerful nations to find a way to divert these small minor planets orbiting around the sun from one day smashing into Earth.
An article on the research, published in the August 26 edition of the prestigious journal Nature, was written by researchers from institutions in the Czech Republic, the US, Chile, Slovakia, Ukraine, Spain and France, in addition to Israel."
