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In lab experiments, scientists heated the surfaces of free-falling faux asteroids with X-ray radiation.
X-rays emitted by a distal nuclear blast could deflect some asteroids that are about as wide as the National Mall in Washington , D.C. , is long.
Such blasts would, in theory, occur at safe distances from Earth .
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