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Originally Posted by fire-fox
as for the nuke Vs rock's
as space is a vacume IE no (or very minisquele amounts of particules) in this vacume then its my GESS that a nuke would have to be inbedded in to the taget rock or lomp of STUFF, to have any effect at all. this will NOT need a bunch of nuti-go-lucky oil riggers  but a ICBM(s) or simmeler type of missle(s) with a penetrater type noses to be used to bast the think offcorse. |
Not necessarily. You just have to be close, so that enough radiation hits one side of the asteroid to heat it up and evaporate a surface layer. That will push the asteroid a bit and change it's course.