Originally Posted by Hondapower10a
Too long of read. I skimmed the first part. Has the Columbia and MIR space station taught us nothing? both were over 100 feet long and both burnt up/broke up in the atmosphere. I know theres a difference between an spacecraft and a big hunk of rock, but the results will be about the same.
Anything that is sent into space is, by design, not very dense. Has to be light. An asteroid, on the other hand, is likely to be quite dense. Those that are not would be broken up as they passed large gravitational fields.