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On Saturday, November 17, 2012 4:20:18 PM UTC-8, bob haller wrote:

blowing up asteroids is a bad idea creating much more debris over a
wider area, doing more damage than a single impact

If the bits are small enough, won't they burn up in the atmosphere?

You still get much the same energy release even if they do so you'll
land up with a super-heated atmosphere instead of holes in the ground.

Anthony