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Gonna take a bit more than a nudge. Even if we put it on a collision course, it would only be travelling โ 17,000 kph, on impact. Barely even moving in intrastellar space. That's only 0.0000157024 times C. We'd need to get it moving to at least 0.0001 C to get it to be a world killer, maybe even 0.001 C. So somehow we need to figure out how to get the thing moving at โ 170,000 kph to โ 1,700,000 kph for it to have enough energy to be a world killer. Right now it's a measly little one megaton explosion.