Apophis asteroid

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

When I first started watching this list of "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids" the count was 404, now it is over 1200.

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And we still only scan a small portion of the skies.

In surveys, people think NASA represents 24% of the Federal budget, averaged. In reality it's 0.60% or less.

H.

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

Apophis is 835 feet long and could hit the earth at over 20,000 miles per hour. The government has in its possession a space craft capable of changing Apophis orbit. The origin of the space craft is not of this earth. I don't care if you don't believe it. The value of the space craft is probably 100 trillion dollars. I wonder who is going to get fly it?

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I say we get Bruce Willis to fly the space craft. He already has mission specific training provided by Jerry Bruckheimer and Touchstone Pictures.