The technology to deflect asteroids is in the realm of theories, we do not have real tools and it has never been possible to deflect one, although that may change in October 2022 when NASA's DART mission sent a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator to the Didymos binary asteroid composed of two objects, one the main asteroid about 780 m wide and the other smaller than the orbit popularly called "Diddy moon" this one is about 160 m wide and although it is smaller it has a respectable size, it would be something similar to the size of the great pyramid of Giza.
This "Diddy moon" would be the objective of the ship that would impact contracted at 23 thousand kilometers per hour, there would also be the Era mission of the European space agency, between the two missions that of NASA and the European space agency hope to obtain all the information you need to know how to deflect an asteroid.
In the case of Bennu, we are in time to implement a plan if necessary, but it would be good if humanity had a real plan and tools as soon as possible to be able to act in an emergency and be able to divert an asteroid completely, since although Most of the asteroids larger than Bennu are known and their trajectories still remain to be discovered, many asteroids, especially those less than 150 meters in diameter, which in the event of an impact can also cause a lot of damage and destroy an entire city.
As the ancient Romans would say, victory favors those who prepare and for the first time in the history of the earth our planet can have the tools to defend itself from the blow of an asteroid.
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