December 10, 2019, 16:41 pm.

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

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

A triangular net 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 dominant one in the direction of flight, the three Basalt-class ships are slowly changing the direction of the asteroid's flight by constantly exerting lateral forces.

After the lateral forces and the asteroid's direction of travel combined, the spacecraft had at least 26 hours to correct its direction, although the resulting change was very small.

In the case of accumulation, the direction of the asteroid's flight will inevitably change significantly.

Keelung, East Island, 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 at the bottom are nervous, and many viewers who are on the live broadcast are also worried, they are afraid that it will be bad news.

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

Hearing that it was good news, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"At 15:37 this afternoon, three Xuanwu-class spacecraft successfully captured the WX asteroid at a distance of 1.59 million kilometers from the blue star, and are now correcting the flight direction of the WX asteroid, and the danger is temporarily lifted."

Suddenly, the reporters in the audience hurriedly raised their hands.

"Please ask a reporter from Yangcheng Daily to ask questions."

"Thank you, speaker, can I correct the direction to ensure that the WX asteroid and the blue star do not collide?" The Yangcheng Daily reporter asked nervously.

"Please see the results of the supercomputing simulation of the holographic projection." Ai Heping clicked on the holographic projection and displayed the simulation results on the holographic star map.

I saw that on the dark blue star map, a yellow line appeared in it, the yellow solid line is the orbit of the WX asteroid that has flown over, and the yellow dotted line is the predicted route, and the junction of the virtual and real yellow line is the constantly flashing red light point, which represents the real-time position of the WX asteroid.

The yellow dotted line brushes over an area about 1000~2000 kilometers from the ground of the blue star.

"Ask a question from the Mirror reporter."

The blonde female reporter of the Mirror newspaper hurriedly stood up: "May I ask what to do with this asteroid after it corrects its orbit?"

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

With the crisis temporarily lifted and everyone became active, at least the panicked chaos in the Americas and the West was finally suppressed.

However, the damage caused by this chaos is very huge, and the damage is far easier than the construction, and the entire east coast of Mi Lijia is now a mess, full of devastation and dilapidation, and many rioters take the opportunity to smash and loot, or deceive people.

According to conservative estimates, Mi Lijia alone has caused direct economic losses of 200 billion US dollars, and the indirect impact is difficult to estimate.

And the social order of the Eastern world, due to congenital reasons and strong control, did not have serious problems.

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

Kaohsiung base, ground control center.

"The orbit of the WX asteroid has been slightly deflected."

"The supercomputing center continues to track calculations."

"The WX asteroid is 1.39 million kilometers away from the blue star."

[Didididi!] Abnormal! Abnormal! Once again, the remote control system is alarming.

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

"Wang Ju, due to the interaction force of the carbon nanopipe network, a part of the surface of the WX asteroid has been cut, and a part of the unstable structure on the surface of the WX asteroid is being stripped away." The staff of the remote control department hurriedly replied.

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

"Calculating."

"Wang Ju, don't worry too much, the mesh of the carbon nano pipe network is a 20-centimeter square, even if it is a fragment that breaks and flies out, it will not be too big." Zeng Baojiang comforted.

Wang Tu thought for a while and ordered: "I know, but this is more or less a problem, notify other space agencies and let them track these debris as much as possible." ”

Zeng Baojiang hurriedly went to the holographic conference room to explain the situation to the liaison officers of other aerospace agencies or astronomical institutions.

In the far reaches of outer space, the WX asteroid is flying rapidly, and there are many debris shed.

These debris are mainly sputtered towards the Moon and the Blue Star, but due to the action of multiple forces, coupled with the interference of the gravitational pull of the Moon and the gravitational pull of the Blue Star, the direction of their flight becomes unpredictable.

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

The WX asteroid scattered all the way to the Kaohsiung ground control center was in a hurry, and space agencies or astronomical institutions around the world also took action.

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

The time came to December 11, 2019, at 9:23 a.m., when the distance of the WX asteroid from the blue star was about 560,000 kilometers.

"According to the report, due to the fact that the WX asteroid has been stripped of about 6 million tons of mass, it is expected that the cross orbit distance with the blue star is 2430~2650 kilometers in low earth orbit."

"According to the report, the debris scattered along the WX asteroid is currently about 22 million ~ 24 million, of which 30% will enter the lunar orbit, 50% will be scattered in the orbit of about 50 ~ 1 million kilometers away from the blue star, and the remaining 20% will enter the low earth orbit of the blue star."

Wang Tu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he looked at the millions of fragments, he turned around and instructed his assistant:

"Send an urgent notice to governments to prevent meteorites on December 11, 2019, at 18~24 o'clock in Peking time."

After being relayed by the liaison 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 consume them.

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

The WX asteroid is at a perigee of 2674 kilometers in the low earth orbit of the blue star, and the blue star passes by, and many astronomy enthusiasts who don't want to die take the opportunity to observe the scene of the WX asteroid approaching the blue star.

Corrected by three Basalt-class spacecraft, the WX asteroid narrowly brushed past the Blue Star's low Earth orbit before it was captured by the Blue Star's gravity.

At the same time, Qinglong-class 002 and Qinglong-class 004, which had been waiting for a long time at 2,400 kilometers in low-earth orbit, immediately started their main engines and headed for the WX asteroid.

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

The WX asteroid will stay in orbit about 50,000 kilometers away from the blue star under the combined action of the three basalt-class ships and the gravitational pull of the blue star.

However, now the whole world is not in the mood to care about the whereabouts of the WX asteroid, because the small gift brought by the WX asteroid, the debris of more than five million pieces, has also begun to enter the atmosphere of the blue star on a large scale.