Reply to post: it would be like a car hitting a shopping cart

Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today

Rich 11

it would be like a car hitting a shopping cart

The collision would have a total kinetic energy equivalent to about 70 tonnes of TNT going bang. That's a tad more than a car hitting a shopping cart.

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