To: LibWhacker
Wasn't there some talk fairly recently about trying to hit an asteroid with something hard enough to hit it off course?
3 posted on
12/27/2006 11:45:01 PM PST by
sageb1
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To: sageb1
Yes. It has to be the right kind of asteroid though. Apparently, it wouldn't work with a "rubble pile."
To: sageb1
"Wasn't there some talk fairly recently about trying to hit an asteroid with something hard enough to hit it off course?"The problem is not in our trying to knock it off course. What happens if between now and 2041 if something in outerspace hits 2006 XG1 and knocks it 3,100 miles closer to earth?
Afterall, where did they find this rock? In an asteroid belt filled with all kinds of other rocks moving pretty fast.
yitbos
30 posted on
12/28/2006 1:12:11 AM PST by
bruinbirdman
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To: sageb1
"Wasn't there some talk fairly recently about trying to hit an asteroid with something hard enough to hit it off course?"
Jimmy Carter's head?
Bill Clinton's ?
55 posted on
12/28/2006 6:13:04 AM PST by
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