[Romulus]

Dang.

[Lockbox]

So we will not make it the 9.27 years we have left to stop global climate change because we will be wiped out by an asteroid? Damn!

[poinq]

Two things. We are finding new asteroids with large orbits which we have not seen in hundreds of years. Some have shown up this year that we did not even know existed. And secondly, there is always the combination. An asteroid can hit another object and part of that combination can form new orbits and they could hit earth. We seem to be fine as long as everything keeps its orbit and hits nothing else. The reality is that space things are hitting other space things all the time. And you cannot mathematically calculate the orbit of the pieces. You just have to wait and see the outcome.

[WMarshal]

If Apophis going to fly by Earth within 20,000 miles in eight years maybe we should strike it with a missile carrying a hydrogen bomb to knock it out of an Intersecting orbit forever. with something this close we definitely have the technology to take it out and would make a nice light show at night.

Any nuclear explosion would have to be planned to occur far enough away from earth to ensure that Earth would not get too strong of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would know out electrical grids.