[Sodel]

Hey, that's a really cool idea! Using an asteroid as its own propellant.

[zkhalique]

Yeah! Has anyone actually investigated this or written about it??

[throwaway5752]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance#Hist... - Project Icarus is almost 50 years old. There was a paper about laser ablation 2 years ago. Lot of literature on many different collision avoidance strategies.

[vortico]

There was a talk this year at LLNL showcasing a few methods, each with high resolution mesh-based simulations. Hopefully that's enough information so you can find the slides online.