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To: piytar

Suppose it hits a small asteroid and it changes the direction of itself or the asteroid to.hit the earh?


54 posted on 09/11/2019 10:06:34 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Earth. Can’t even type!


55 posted on 09/11/2019 10:08:44 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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Odds of any impact of that nature happening are about 10,000,000,000,000,000 to 1 (rough and very low estimate - no, I’m not going to bore people with the math). Unlike in the movies, asteroid fields including our Asteroid Belt are actually very sparse with respect to significantly sized objects. Space even in our solar system is BIG. And I’m not even including the trajectory involved.

IOW it is not going to happen.


89 posted on 09/13/2019 5:57:16 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Getready

Yes, that is about 10 quintillion to 1. Not something I’d worry about.


90 posted on 09/13/2019 6:08:11 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Getready

Sorry, quadrillion.


91 posted on 09/13/2019 6:08:53 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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