The appropriate thing to do is to mount rocket thrusters on it and push it out of orbit. Even nukes would only be useful to push it out of orbit as well, as you're not going to vaporize a quarter-km diameter chunk of rock with nukes or lasers.
Even nukes would only be useful to push it out of orbit as well, as you're not going to vaporize a quarter-km diameter chunk of rock with nukes or lasers.
Yea like Hollywood never gets it wrong or exaggerates.
Almost there...http://laserpointerforums.com/f45/university-michigans-300-terawatt-laser-31485.html
And that was in '08.....I should go there tomorrow and just ask them, "Hey, how's the megaultrasuperepicspecialawesome laser going?" Then...."Can it pop a balloon? How about a gigantic rock balloon?"
apophis was once a 4 on the torino scale but was then downgraded to a one, then 0. Currently chances of impact are less than 0.1%.