Apophis Asteroid Impact? Err, maybe not.
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We would have to fire the nuke when it's close to Earth or send a space ship to intercept ... fat chance ... with our current propulsion tech and it might take huge payload of nuke warhead in one strike, how do we deliver them accurately ?
Can we hit a bullet with a bullet ? Using nukes would be almost impossible, useless as impact force would not be enough to counter the mass and force of such object traveling at extremely high speed. Unless, someone can calculate exactly how much nuke needed to deflect or destroy it to pieces ... the result might be hundreds of tons of nuke ...
Just my less than educated guess ..
Can we hit a bullet with a bullet ? Using nukes would be almost impossible, useless as impact force would not be enough to counter the mass and force of such object traveling at extremely high speed. Unless, someone can calculate exactly how much nuke needed to deflect or destroy it to pieces ... the result might be hundreds of tons of nuke ...
Just my less than educated guess ..
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We recently crash landed a satellite into a comet/asteroid. Don't see why we couldn't do it again...
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Not too sure on doing it with a big space ship carrying nuclear warheads and full crew ... a satellite has less mass and requires a lot less propulsion energy.
Unless by that time we have similar capability like in that Armageddon movie, sending a full size space ship complete with drilling equipment, 2 giant rovers, and some nukes.
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To do anything we have to send a ship when it is quite far out so the .01°(or what ever it is) of deflection means by the time it approach's the earth it is quite far out.
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I'm thinking do it the easy way. If the chances of an impact in 2036 were likely enough, hit it with a few nukes now, while the distances are small, to change its orbit enough so that it won't come close to the Earth on the next pass.
Might be too much to hope that we have the launch capability to adjust its orbit so that it falls into the sun, but that's the reasonable thing to do.
Might be too much to hope that we have the launch capability to adjust its orbit so that it falls into the sun, but that's the reasonable thing to do.
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Well it's next closest pass is in 2029 where it will pass within 18,000 miles of us. Do it then.
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What happens in 2029 will determine if it hits us.
As if the earth's gravity pulls it closer, in 2036 it may hit us.
In 2029 it will fly by our GPS and communication satellites.
It is too far out to worry about it.
In 2029 the issues that plague us(war and conflict) now are no longer the case
then all nations can think and come up with a way to deal with it.
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It's all dependent on this so-called 'gravitational keyhole' that it may pass through on it's next flyby. If it does, then that could increase it chances of hitting the Earth next time round.
Though this keyhole is only half a mile wide, so I doubt it.
Though this keyhole is only half a mile wide, so I doubt it.
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Why don't we just blow the 🤬 thing up? We have a NWSF! (Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility) that happens to be full of Nuclear Weapons that we really don't need anymore now that we don't want to blow up the Soviet Union anymore.
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Karma.
Indeed
It's orbit.
Just as we orbit the sun and the moon orbits the planet.
Asteroids and Comets can have an orbit.
This is the orbital path of Halley's Comet.
Guess I never considered that space particles are all orbiting as well. I suddenly feel less confident about the future of this planet.
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