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e40 on April 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into...

Interesting idea. Think of the disaster scenario where they miss the moon and the thing is caught in the earth's gravity well. That would be horrific.

laconian on April 27, 2012 [–]

I think it would get burned up on reentry.

kbolino on April 27, 2012 | [–]

I don't think so.

3554 Amun [1]

  Estimated Diameter = 2500 m
  Estimated Mass = 16,000,000,000,000 kg

For comparison,

International Space Station [2]

  Longest Dimension = 109 m
  Mass = 450,000 kg

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3554_Amun [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

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