What will you do if you had to make a machine to stop a meteror

Question: What will you do if you had to make a machine to stop a meteror
- Keywords:
  machine,
  meteor,
  stop
Asked by devonte to Stephen, Lucy on 10 Mar 2017.
- Lucy Kissick answered on 10 Mar 2017:
  
  If a meteor was headed on a collision course with Earth, we might be able to divert it using either rockets attached to the asteroid itself, or sometimes asteroids are very iron-rich so we could attract it off-course using a large magnet. This is just my own speculation! This could be pure science fiction for all I know. The best way to improve your odds of surviving a meteor impact is to live on multiple planets — this is actually one of the main reasons for colonising Mars, in case there is an unforeseen catastrophe.

Question: What will you do if you had to make a machine to stop a meteror