Deflect Me - a humble proposal

 		In 2011, three Citizen Scientists (employees of IBM Interactive), published a little invention disclosure about a design for a space craft to deflect potential biosphere-killing asteroids from striking Earth.

Here is our disclosure:
https://musicman.net/000210442.pdf.

  • John F. ("Jeff") Kelley, Ph.D. - IBM Master Inventor
  • Douglas Brown - IBM Master Inventor
  • Robert J. ("Bob") Torres, M.S. - IBM Master Inventor (ret) (and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team)

And, here's a nifty NOVA Episode about Asteroids

Source: https://discovery.nasa.gov/SmallWorlds/WhyWeExplore.cfml, credit Don Davis, NASA