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Rate this Entry  On killing Apophis...    There have been
several studies about how to stop asteroids and comets, and they
found that the one thing you DON'T want to do is blow it up.
That will turn it into a bunch of smaller pieces that could
potentially do even more damage. They did talk about using
gravity to deflect asteroids and comets, but what if it causes
the asteroid to come back later and strike? This is serious
matter.  My fear is that even Earth's own gravity could nudge
the asteroid on a different path, one that could turn its second
pass into a collision. What if such did happen, and the asteroid
collided with our oceans? Apophis is nowhere near as large as
the one that killed the dinosaurs, but it is three times larger
than the Tungutska meteorite that flattened millions of trees in
Siberia in 1908. It is capable, if it collides with Earth, to
cause a tsunami capable of circumspreading the globe and wiping
out all of Earth's coastli