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Near Earth Asteroid

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    #2
    albertw
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    CathyMoran wrote:
    I do wish that they would spend more money monitoring these things.

    And earthquake detection...


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    CathyMoran
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    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news148.html
    It went down from to a 1 on the Torino scale...now we just have to worry about 1950DA on March 16th 2880...


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2000sg344.html

    relative velocity 1.37Km/s
    diameter 40m
    mass 7.1e+07 kg (7,100 Tonnes)

    how about this as a candidate for aero-braking as a way of getting a lot of mass into geosynch orbit or more likely LEO ?

    even as just radiation shielding it would be useful, not to mention it's uses as reaction mass

    only thing is it ain't due till 2068-09-19.74

    (others - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/ )


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    elivsvonchiaing
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2000sg344.html

    relative velocity 1.37Km/s
    diameter 40m
    mass 7.1e+07 kg (7,100 Tonnes)

    how about this as a candidate for aero-braking as a way of getting a lot of mass into geosynch orbit or more likely LEO ?

    even as just radiation shielding it would be useful, not to mention it's uses as reaction mass

    only thing is it ain't due till 2068-09-19.74

    (others - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/ )
    It would be cool to have a second moon alright - can't think it size would be obnoxious enough even on close approach to cause problems... Unless there are serious advances in medicine though, this will arrive about 20 years after I want to live :eek:


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