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Subject: Re: "Rising Odds Asteroid That Briefly Threatened Earth Will Hit
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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:17:37 -0700
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On 4/19/2025 8:56 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:14:30 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:23:21 -0400, Cryptoengineer
>> <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Note: I signed out while finding this, but it should be generally
>>>> available. If not, the point of the article is that it took only 10
>>>> minutes to create two canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon by tossing
>>>> rocks around.
>>>
>>> Just to clarify. The Schrodinger Impact Basin, which the article
>>> refers to, is 312 km across. This is 50% larger than the Cicxulub
>>> Crater the ended the dinosaurs, which was crated by an impactor
>>> 10 km across.
>>>
>>> The current asteroid, 2024 YR4, is about 60m across, and about
>>> one five millionth the mass of the Chicxulub impactor. Its a city
>>> killer, not something that would cause a mass extinction.
>>>
>>> pt
>>
>> Silly question perhaps, but could a standard ICBM be fired into space
>> and have a hope in hell to (when detonated) turn a collision into a
>> near miss?
> 
> Didn't NASA do a test a while back showing that that was possible?

The NASA test (DART I believe was the name) used an interplanetary 
launch vehicle.  ICBMs are not interplanetary.

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