BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space rock 'on collision course'. Duck. Apparently it's not time to get nervous yet; but I have to wonder what they'd actually do if this thing turned out to be heading right for us. Trying to blow it up with a dirty great nuke does not seem like a good idea to me, since it sounds like Earth would probably orbit through the (radioactive) debris sooner or later. Besides; blowing it up would just make a whole of smaller rocks coming right for us, wouldn't it? Cosmic buckshot...
nb: yeah i know, in space "close" means one thing is within several hundred thousand kms of another thing.
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