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Re:Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid by antipaganda on Thursday December 31, 2009 @10:33AM (#1024398)
It's only 350 metres wide. That'd be enough to seriously fuck up any large country on Earth without causing much damage, relatively, to other parts of the world. Anyway, you could keep the equipment on the rock, keep Apophis skimming Earth nice and close every few years, and have a permanent very big deterrent.
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Re:Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid by rbanffy on Thursday December 31, 2009 @10:48AM (#1024413)
The deterrent wouldn't work. It would take ages to direct it to any target, but a much smaller time to neutralize it with a bomb.
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