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No. Any asteroid we could reasonably capture is much too small to have any significant impact.
by Pinckney 11y ago
No. Any asteroid we could reasonably capture is much too small to have any significant impact.
- nerfhammer 11y agoWhat if we mess it up and it comes tumbling toward earth?
- personjerry 11y agoThis is the sort of thing we would verify the calculations of, many times, and consider problems ahead of time.
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- 8note 11y agoit would likely burn up on entry
- InclinedPlane 11y agoWe lack the ability to move a large enough asteroid to do any serious damage.
- Pinckney 11y agoNot yet, but perhaps in the near future. The National Space Society has a proposal up for capturing 99942 Apophis via gravitational slingshot, which would be fairly damaging if we managed to crash it.