We can fill up the hole made by the asteroid and make the worlds biggest pool :D

Let's say that an asteroid the size of a house crashed on Earth at 30,000 mph. It would have an amount of energy roughly equal to the bomb that fell on Hiroshima — perhaps 20 kilotons. An asteroid like this would flatten reinforced concrete buildings up to half a mile from ground zero, and flatten wooden structures perhaps a mile and a half from ground zero. It would, in other words, do extensive damage to any city.

That is the size of a house.

My guess it would make the asteroid mad

It wouldn't work because asteroids travel at an incredible rate. You could fire missiles, bombs, whatever you want, if it's large enough it will laugh all the way down. Think about it this way, if a 10 km asteroid is on coarse to impact one spot on earth, and you hit it with bombs or missiles, all you will be left with is a broken up asteroid that could now hit several places on earth. If you fire nukes at it, it will be a radioactive asteroid when it gets here. Bad, bad idea.

The best idea so far is to use a gravity tug. This is simply flying a spacecraft of some kind with a huge mass near the asteroid, the spacecrafts mass will give it a gravitational pull, and the asteroid can be tugged out of harms way. It sounds far fetched but this is an idea that is being taken seriously by people who specialise in patrolling the skies for potential objects on a collision coarse with earth.

Currently the odds of getting hit by a particular asteroid in 2036 are 1:250,000.

That is 249,999 misses to one lucky shot. ;-)

Stellarium is great for free software. It would be pretty darn good for paid software too, but it's great that it is free.

There are some commercial programs that beat Stellarium, including StarryNight, but for answering the casual "what is that bright star?" question, it is hard to knock Stellarium.

As far as getting hit, it depends on how you define it. The earth is a pretty big place, and we plow through a lot of dust in our orbit around the sun. In fact, the estimate is that we gain about 100 tons of mass every day from all the dust and small meteors that we hit (or that hit us, depending on how you look at it).

Currently the odds of getting hit by a particular asteroid in 2036 are 1:250,000. I say 'currently' because we don't have a good enough fix on its orbit to say for sure, but the chances are that after the next couple of passes that our chances of being hit by it are going to drop to zero. We discuss this on the asteroids page.

Come on guys tell me what those bright stars are before dawn

Yes master.

I checked skyandtelescope they told me they were Mercury venus and jupiter

I'm going to go with mercury, Venus and Jupiter.
Don't believe me, which wouldn't surprise me, then here's a NASA link explaining the morning alignments:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09may_morningplanets/
That article says the alignments should end on may 30th, so chances are if you saw it recently, this is it.

can you 2012hoax.org aproove that

I'm certainly willing to accept sky and telescope telling me it's mercury, Venus and Jupiter before I accept a bunch of crackpots telling me it's comet elenin, planet x and nibiru. How about you?

and watch those vids on the comments section thanks !!

Sorry, no can do, I have grass I need to watch as it grows.

http://homepage.mac.com/rarendt/Galaxy/youcansee.html

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=435

Forgive me, I am in no means any type of astronomer, lol. My 13 year old brother knows more than me!

My dad built a telescope with his dad back in the early 60's… It is massive and still works to a 'T'… Ever since moving out to the small town I see a LOT more stars now. I even can see the Milky Way! Don't be afraid to look at the sky, Awesomeee… You may see a shooting star (rare but pretty!), earthshine on the moon, beautiful stars and planets… Everything is in it's right place. In fact, I once counted almost 25 airplanes in the sky one night!

I'll check with my brother about that program!

maybe you should ask for a telescope for your birthday. 50x amplification is more than enough to actually see Jupiter and the belts. It is tiny, you need sharp eyes to see it with x50. Saturn is even more tinier but you can actually see the rings.

Now the bigger the telescope the more details you will see. I have a 10" Dobsonion Orion telescope. Not good for taking images but cheap and easy to use for visual seeing. And you also have to realize, that when you see the planet with your own eyes, every photon that strikes your eye actually touched that object before! How cool is that?

Don't buy a cheap telescope in the nearest shop. They don't work, bad optics. Waste of money.