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will they shoot this one down as well, to avoid hitting sattelites?
 
will they shoot this one down as well, to avoid hitting sattelites?

That only works in the movies.

In reality you have to rendezvous a rocket stage with the rock and change it's velocity with thrust.

You can't "shoot down" an asteroid that isn't heading for the surface of the Earth, it's in a heliocentric orbit.
 

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