Per NASA Asteroid 101955 Bennu shown as 0.00 distance from earth 9-24-2186

a reply to: Buvvy

This stuff is deep in Egyptian Mysticism.. Bennu,,Isis and Osiris

Wake up kids and smell the coffee.

Bennu The Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun, creation, and rebirth

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Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. I

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Osiris is an Egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and rebirth

re: Asteroid mitigation, deflection etc.

SheenieShekelstein: gonna have to land stuff that can thrust it in a particular direction
[5:15 PM] SheenieShekelstein: or in some cases solar sails
[5:16 PM] SheenieShekelstein: depending on the composition you can also turn it into a binary explosive
[5:17 PM] SheenieShekelstein: that is if it is certain metals you can put tanks of oxidizers etc
[5:17 PM] SheenieShekelstein: and then model the explosion so that it will cause thrusting or out gassing in a particular direction
[5:17 PM] SheenieShekelstein: such modeling would carry considerably more risk
[5:17 PM] SheenieShekelstein: and debris that could be created
It would seem safest to alter trajectory utilizing solar sails and or ion thrusters.

phys.org...

Materials inspired by such Khepre like organisms could prove to be cheaper and more effective than the standard solar sail materials.

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The calculation associated with these effect will be of the upmost improtance. It seems depending on the composition of the incoming object, various strategies may be employed. The laser ablation will be most useful when metallic asteroids are encountered, it seems. It is a matter of powering the laser system that would be the most challenging.

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Full disclosure, alien technology

I'll be about 223 years old then.

Might be close to retirement.

a reply to: Buvvy

To be fair with our current rate of technological advancement, if by the year 2186 we still haven't found a way to either divert or destroy an asteroid, we should call it quits and let a different species have a go.

a reply to: Thill

Diverting the asteroid won't be difficult once they know the actual trajectory.
Prediction is the challenge that drives intellectual evolution, for example the invention of calculus.

The transit of Venus across the solar disk of the sun was first observed by a Persian polymath named Avicenna May 24, 1032.
The Royal Society of London commissioned a project for the 1769 transit of Venus to improve the accuracy of longitude mappings.
This was an early Very-long-baseline interferometry experiment limited to the accuracy of calendar day and measurable sun elevation. Venus can take 6 hours to transit.

In the late 1950's when they were planning the satellite infrastructure they realized they would need much more accurate clocks. Position and time are co-dependent, the limits of a calculus integral determines the range of answers which are then fed back into the calculation as new limits for subsequent integral equations.

The VLBI work done in the 1960's was classified but the CIA may have intended disclosure from clues like the "digetal interpretatiu" misspellings.

The actual track of Asteroid 101955 Bennu might be the subject of secret government projects similar too the Cook expedition of 1769 that used the transit ov Venus.