reading a superhero comic where the lead was this uninspiring, emotionally screwed up, or pathetic. And the whole mystery surrounding his suicide was intriguing. So, at the very least, this story had a nice setup which made me want to crowd around with everyone else and watch where it went...
it may be possible to use gravity to drag the asteroid into a new orbit or trajectory. The biggest challenge is the amount of mass the probe or device would require to affect the asteroid. The bigger the asteroid, the more massive the probe would need to be....