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December 10, 2019, 16:41 pm.

At this moment, the WX asteroid is 1.47 million kilometers away from Blue Star, but its flight orbit is slowly changing.

Through the monitoring on the three Xuanwu-class spacecraft, the ground control center can clearly observe the gray-white surface of the WX asteroid.

A triangular network of carbon nanotubes as thick as a finger is tightly wrapped around the WX asteroid, like a fishing trawl.

Although the WX asteroid is still the leader in its flight direction, the three Xuanwu-class ships are slowly changing the asteroid's flight direction by constantly exerting lateral force.

After the lateral force and the asteroid's forward direction are combined, although the change caused is very small, the spacecraft still has at least 26 hours to correct its flight direction.

When a small amount adds up to a large amount, the asteroid's flight direction will inevitably undergo a relatively big change.

East Island Keelung, Galaxy Consortium headquarters, press conference hall.

A staff member of the Space Development Committee hurriedly handed a document to Ai Heping, and then whispered a few words in his ear.

The news media below suddenly became nervous, and many viewers watching the live broadcast were also on tenterhooks, fearing that it was bad news.

Ai Heping flipped through the documents and said quickly: "Don't be nervous, everyone, this is good news."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the good news.

"Three Xuanwu-class spacecraft successfully captured the WX asteroid at 15:37 this afternoon at a distance of 1.59 million kilometers from Blue Star. They are now correcting the flight direction of the WX asteroid and the danger is temporarily relieved."

Immediately, the reporters in the audience quickly raised their hands.

"Reporters from Yangcheng Daily please ask questions."

"Thank you, spokesperson. Can the direction be corrected to ensure that the WX asteroid and Blue Star do not collide?" a reporter from Yangcheng Daily asked nervously.

"Please look at the supercomputing simulation results of holographic projection." Ai Heping clicked on the holographic projection to display the simulation results on the holographic star map.

I saw a yellow line appearing on the dark blue star map. The solid yellow line is the orbit that the WX asteroid has flown, and the dotted yellow line is the predicted route. The intersection of the dotted and solid yellow lines is a flashing red light spot. This represents the current position of the WX asteroid.

The yellow dotted line passes in an area about 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers away from the Blue Star ground.

"Mirror reporters please ask questions."

The blond female reporter from the Mirror quickly stood up: "What should we do with this asteroid after it corrects its orbit?"

"The Space Development Committee is currently discussing it, and I can't answer it for the time being." Ai Heping explained.

As the crisis was temporarily lifted and everyone became active, at least the panic chaos in America and Western Europe was finally suppressed.

However, the damage caused by this chaos is huge. Destruction is far easier than construction. The entire east coast of Milijia is now in a mess, with devastated ruins everywhere. Many thugs take the opportunity to smash, loot, and burn, or use magic sticks to deceive people.

A conservative estimate is that the Mi Li family alone has caused direct economic losses of US$200 billion, and the indirect impact is difficult to estimate.

As for the social order in the Eastern world, due to congenital reasons and strong control, there are no serious problems.

Now the Western world is busy putting out fires everywhere, while the Eastern world is busy correcting the trajectory of the WX asteroid. The two are like two worlds.

Kaohsiung base, ground control center.

"The orbit of the WX asteroid has experienced a small deflection."

"The Supercomputing Center continues to track calculations."

"The WX asteroid is 1.39 million kilometers away from Blue Star."

[Didi didi! abnormal! abnormal! ] The remote control system sounded the alarm again.

"What's wrong?" Wang Tu immediately stood up nervously and asked.

"Wang Ju, because the carbon nanotube network cut off part of the surface of WX asteroid under the interaction force, part of the unstable structure on the surface of WX asteroid is being peeled off." The staff of the remote control department hurriedly replied.

"Calculate the possible consequences of these fragments." Wang Tu ordered with a headache.

"calculating."

"Wang Ju, don't worry too much. The mesh of the carbon nanotube network is 20 centimeters square. Even if the fragments break and fly out, they won't be too big." Zeng Baojiang comforted him.

Wang Tu thought for a moment and said: "I know, but this is more or less a problem. Notify other space agencies and let them track these fragments as much as possible."

Zeng Baojiang quickly went to the holographic conference room to explain the situation to liaisons from other aerospace agencies or astronomical agencies.

In the distant outer space, while the WX asteroid was flying rapidly, quite a few pieces fell off.

These fragments are mainly sputtered in the direction of the moon and the blue star. However, due to the action of multiple forces and the interference of the moon's gravity and the blue star's gravity, their flight direction becomes difficult to predict.

In addition, most of these fragments are very small, generally about the size of a fist, and the largest is the size of a basketball, which makes monitoring more difficult.

The WX asteroid that scattered all the way caused the Kaohsiung ground control center to scramble, and space agencies or astronomical agencies around the world also took action.

These tens of thousands of debris may not be harmful to the Blue Star ground, but they are definitely a fatal threat to spacecraft in outer space.

The time comes to 9:23 am on December 11, 2019. At this time, the distance between the WX asteroid and the Blue Star is about 560,000 kilometers.

"The report shows that since the WX asteroid has been stripped of about 6 million tons of mass, the cross-orbit distance with Blue Star is expected to be 2,430 to 2,650 kilometers in low-Earth orbit."

"The report shows that the debris scattered along the WX asteroid is currently about 22 to 24 million pieces, of which 30% will enter the lunar orbit, 50% will be scattered in the orbit about 500,000 to 1 million kilometers away from the blue star, and the remaining 20% ​​will enter the blue star. star in low-Earth orbit.”

Wang Tu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he looked at the millions of fragments. He turned around and ordered to his assistant:

"Send an emergency notice to governments of all countries, asking them to prevent meteorites during this period from 18 to 24 o'clock Beijing time on December 11, 2019."

After being conveyed by the liaison officer in the holographic conference room, the whole world became nervous. After all, most of these meteorites are iron-nickel meteorites, and the atmosphere may not be able to completely destroy them.

Time flies by like a white horse. On December 11, 2019, at 19:11 Peking time, under the watchful eyes of the whole world.

The WX asteroid passed by the Blue Star at a perigee of 2,674 kilometers in the Blue Star's near-Earth orbit. Many astronomy enthusiasts who were desperate for their lives took the opportunity to observe the scene of the WX asteroid approaching the Blue Star.

Under the correction of three Xuanwu-class spacecraft, the WX asteroid almost passed the Blue Star's low-Earth orbit, and was later captured by the Blue Star's gravity.

At the same time, Qinglong-class No. 002 and Qinglong-class No. 004, which had been waiting for a long time at 2,400 kilometers in low-Earth orbit, immediately started their main engines and headed towards the WX asteroid.

The two Qinglong-class ships carried 40 tons of fuel this time to supplement the three Xuanwu-class ships.

The WX asteroid will stay in an orbit about 50,000 kilometers away from the Blue Star under the combined influence of the three Xuanwu-class ships and the Blue Star's gravity.

But now the whole world is not in the mood to care about the whereabouts of the WX asteroid, because the small gifts brought by the WX asteroid, more than five million pieces of debris, have begun to enter the Blue Star's atmosphere on a large scale.

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