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There are bunker busters but most of them are conventional bombs, or cruise missiles (with a propeller). If they can bust few (double digit?) meters of concret
by rvba 4y ago
There are bunker busters but most of them are conventional bombs, or cruise missiles (with a propeller).
If they can bust few (double digit?) meters of concrete, they could bust a rock. Assuming they dont miss and assuming they dont slip.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster
Obviously it would have to be some combination of an anti sat missile (so it can fly in space) and a bunker buster (so it can crush throigh rock).
- roenxi 4y agoMy physics is a bit rusty. Would that help? There is a rock with huge amounts of kinetic energy and you hit it with a bunker buster, then what? You've then got the same amount of mass (mass being conserved) and the same amount of energy (energy being conserved) on more or less the same trajectory. I'm not sure that counts as shooting it down. In the context of a celestial object usually "shoot it down" means "deflect it so it misses earth".
- throwaway4aday 4y agoIf you break it apart then you have more surface area to interact with the atmosphere.