> 
> Hey All,
>     I just hope they knock it the right way and not towards us.  Remember the
> Peter Principle.   Steve
> 

The impact of the spacecraft on the asteroid would be very insubstantial. It would
take something like a nuclear bomb to get any significent change in orbit.  
Incidently, the same experiment will be performed with the Deep Impact mission, when
its probe impacts into a comet.

Ron Baalke

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