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What if we mess it up and it comes tumbling toward earth?
by nerfhammer 11y ago
What 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.