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I guess they are afraid of another Tunguska event or worse (human extinction). Since the oceans and Russia occupy so much space on earth, it makes some sense for Russia to want to be the most proactive although everybody should be on board if the threat is legit. We'll probably be all dead by 2036 anyway or wishing we were dead.

Btw...I wonder if France likes to be compared to a rock that may destroy the planet

Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said on Wednesday.

"We will soon hold a closed meeting of our collegium, the science-technical council to look at what can be done" to prevent the asteroid Apophis from slamming into the planet in 2036, Anatoly Perminov told Voice of Russia radio.

"We are talking about people's lives," Perminov was quoted by news agencies as telling the radio station.

"Better to spend a few hundred million dollars to create a system for preventing a collision than to wait until it happens and hundreds of thousands of people are killed," he said.

The Apophis asteroid measures approximately 350 metres in diameter and RIA Novosti news agency said that if it were to hit Earth when it passes nearby in 2036 it would create a new desert the size of France.

Russian scientists mull asteroid plan