[rmlew]

Time to send a probe to check out the satelite. If feasable, we should alter its path so that it hits the sun. A few kilotons at the right place should do this.

[cmsgop]

Ah Man!!!!! Im gonna go buy a Ferrari !!!!!!!!!!!

[ShadowAce]

Well, I think we oughta wait until 15 Jan 2019 and then send Bruce Willis and his crack team of miners up to blow it up.

[patton]

So what makes you think that, on some lonely night in 2019, it won't smack into the back side of the moon?

Screaming "Earth Killer! Earth Killer!" is a cry for money, dontcha know.

[doug from upland]

No, we should send Jessie Jackson to negotiate with it.

[Redcloak]

Naaahhh... Alter the trajectory so that it orbits the Earth. We could then mine it for materials for use in space. It'll drive the Greenies crazy when they look up every night and see a flying strip mine going overhead!

[Physicist]

Time to send a probe to check out the satelite. If feasable, we should alter its path so that it hits the sun. A few kilotons at the right place should do this.

The delta-v required to make a 2-kilometer rock in an Earth-crossing orbit hit the sun is almost certainly going to be beyond any human scale.

The delta-v required to make it miss the Earth, if it's really on a collision course with Earth in 2019, is probably far beyond our capabilities.

[RightWhale]

we should alter its path so that it hits the sun

It's doing about 50,000 mph. We would have to just about stop it cold to put it into the sun. Big delta vee. Much easier to capture it, and we can make handy household objects out of it.

[Momaw Nadon]

Is anyone else besides the BBC reporting on this 2002 NT7 asteroid?