Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

On 2025-02-13, Hank Rogers wrote:

Newtons laws says there is equal and opposite reactions.
Since an asteroid has no atmosphere, a nuclear blast has
nothing to push against, so there is little effect.

Again you prove that you are smarter than you let on.

What you say is accurate. For sure, some of the asteroid
surface will be vapourized, and the boiling of such
will have some force directed to the asteroid as
the remainder sxpands to space in the other direction.

But the kinetic energy transfer (force x distance) will be
so small that there will be, as you say, little effect.