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smacks of Hollywood, but American scientists continue to practice in an attempt
to find ways of fighting such space objects like asteroids. One of the latest
developments in this direction was the project hypersonic interceptor for asteroids
(HAIV). This project was born in the depths of the institution as a research
center of reflection asteroids (in the U.S. there is such), working at the
University of Iowa. The program itself is implemented as part of a large
research program of NASA.
