On Friday (Feb. 15), the 130-foot (40 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 gave Earth a historically close shave, missing the planet by just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers).

Now Jonathan Katz at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, says there is a simpler and more efficient way to redirect asteroids—by painting them with a metallic coating.

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This story is from February 25, 2013 Spray paint may save Earth from asteroid crash PTI / Updated: Feb 25, 2013, 05:57 IST ...

Hyland is not the only scientist who thinks paint could save Earth from a cataclysmic impact. Last year, an MIT graduate student proposed launching a spacecraft that would bombard a threatening ...

According to one professor, we can stop global warming if we used a new super white paint. The problem though, is we would need to cover at least 1% of the earth's surface with the paint. That won ...