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Originally Posted by Gsquare
However, more seriously, that's close enough to take out a satellite (or two), and at such a high incoming velocity, possibly alter the asteroid's course ....or at least cause the asteroid, being subject to huge tidal forces of earth already, to break apart and change trajectory toward earth.
Just speculating;...What do you think?
More on the 2029 close encounter: http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...d_apophis.html
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One more comment about this one. Imagine you're on the motorway driving at 180 kilometers hour. Suddenly your car hits a fly. Would you expect your car to go off the motorway and hit a house 500 meters off the motorway directly to your right? Well, I wouldn't. Even if you hit something bigger, a deer for example and the car slid off the road, I'd still be safe in the house becouse the car would continue to go forward thus missing the house. And no we don't have anything comparable to that in high orbit.