[ExI] Asteroid on track for possible Mars hit

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 23 December 2007, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> A very interesting problem, actually. Would a rubble pile do worse
> than a solid silicate or FeNi rock? What about ice with
> organic/silicate muck on it? Nobody has nuked a rock in space yet.
> Hell, we should do it, just for the sake of science.

Typical me, I immediately thought: Hey, we should Just Do This Now. So I 
found an open source rocket project from our good friends over at 
arocket: 

http://www.arocketry.net/group-proj.html
(don't forget TEAMFREDNET for the Google Lunar X Prize)

But since this involves nuclear warheads, I'm not so sure this is a good 
citizen project to take up.

- Bryan