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To: aculeus
We have thirty-one years before impact. That's way more than enough time to drop a lander with an ion rocket on it, land it on the asteroid, and fire the ion rocket for about a month to "nudge" the asteroid into a safe orbit. Or if technology is advanced enough by then, use a powerful enough rocket to slow down the asteroid to park it in the L1 gravitational zone between the Earth and Moon and start mining it out afterwards.
56 posted on 12/06/2005 7:26:45 PM PST by RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
We have thirty-one years before impact. That's way more than enough time to drop a lander with an ion rocket on it... for TROP to build some nukes and Apophis will bounce the rubble.
145 posted on 12/07/2005 4:37:25 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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