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.
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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