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Old 14-September-2007, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Tog_ View Post
If we make it out of pure Iron and assume it to be a sphere 10 km in diameter I get 4,120,000,000,000,000 kg.

Well, this site did. I got about 523 for the cubic volume of the asteroid.
No an astroid moving at 99C and is 4.12*10^15 kg would only produce 8.5*10^24 J.

It wounldn't break the gravity strength, but the damage would be huge.
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