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Pinckney
on Dec 7, 2015
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NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving o...
No. Any asteroid we could reasonably capture is much too small to have any significant impact.
nerfhammer
on Dec 8, 2015
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What if we mess it up and it comes tumbling toward earth?
personjerry
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This is the sort of thing we would verify the calculations of, many times, and consider problems ahead of time.
InclinedPlane
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We lack the ability to move a large enough asteroid to do any serious damage.
Pinckney
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Not yet, but perhaps in the near future. The National Space Society has a proposal up for capturing 99942 Apophis via gravitational slingshot, which would be fairly damaging if we managed to crash it.
8note
on Dec 8, 2015
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it would likely burn up on entry
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