kinetic

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The finding provides strong evidence that a kinetic impactor could be used as a planetary defense method to redirect a potentially hazardous near-Earth object.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

"The team's amazingly precise measurement again validates kinetic impact as a technique for defending Earth against asteroid hazards and shows how a binary asteroid might be deflected by impacting just one member of the pair."

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Per Mr. Ritchie, what one does get here is abundant action, adventure and the kind of kinetic musical score that implies things are happening when they’re not.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Observers say those forces remain insufficient for anything beyond a short campaign of a few weeks or a high-intensity kinetic strike.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

The hyena was up again in an instant, every hair on its body as erect as the hairs on my head, but its hostility wasn’t quite so kinetic now.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel