Tilting at Asteroids

JimPooley writes "The European Space Agency are conducting a feasibility study into a future mission to knock an asteroid off course. A Spanish company are planning the 'Don Quixote' mission to launch a pair of spacecraft at an asteroid. One hits the asteroid, while the other monitors it to see what happens."

Re:This is worthwhile

[Anonymous Coward]

Our nuclear missles won't even make it out of orbit. They aren't designed to go flying off into space to intercept a rock. We'd have to put warheads on entirely different rockets in order to do that.

Re:Kicking it off course by a few mm takes 1000 ye

[Mt._Honkey]

This is only a test run. I imagine that if we were to actualy try to save the planet, we would hit it with a MUCH bigger satalite, moving MUCH faster. And paint it white. And maybe hit it with some nukes. Add it all up, and you'll get more than just that