"Near miss! (Near Earth Object)...." Topic
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Uesugi Kenshin  | 12 Dec 2012 4:07 p.m. PST |
Too close for comfort and only 2 days notice!
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Thats why we need to get the X-37b up & running!
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 Parzival | 12 Dec 2012 4:43 p.m. PST |
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| Space Monkey | 12 Dec 2012 5:26 p.m. PST |
Stupid Mayans got their numbers wrong. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 12 Dec 2012 5:34 p.m. PST |
From the video looks like it may be coming around for a second pass! "Missed me by THAT much" |
| Ron W DuBray | 12 Dec 2012 5:35 p.m. PST |
OK one question. What do you think a low earth orbit unmanned mini space truck would be able to do to the 120 foot rock?
My guess would be. Fire a nuke a it? That might melt it making it a very hot, radioactive 120 foot ball of rock if they can hit it. :)
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| Waco Joe | 12 Dec 2012 5:59 p.m. PST |
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| altfritz | 12 Dec 2012 6:07 p.m. PST |
Don't move to Buenos Aires! |
| skippy0001 | 12 Dec 2012 7:57 p.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 13 Dec 2012 7:20 a.m. PST |
"Don't move to Buenos Aires!" Meh, it will hit Paris, I saw it in a documentary. |
| Tom Bryant | 16 Dec 2012 12:54 a.m. PST |
OK one question. What do you think a low earth orbit unmanned mini space truck would be able to do to the 120 foot rock?
My guess would be. Fire a nuke a it? That might melt it making it a very hot, radioactive 120 foot ball of rock if they can hit it. :)
Actually, if you have its trajectory nailed down and you can get something into position a modified "shotgun" technique would work. An orbital launch vehicle could be loaded with a rocket projectile carrying a giant shotgun shell. Ar a predetermined distance the "shell" would discharge releasing a cloud of smaller projectiles ( 00 buck anyone?) to take down the incoming asteroid. It should effectively shred the thing into much smaller projectiles that would burn up on entry. Thank the SDI for that idea. Actually, its an old ASAT trick. |
| Cincinnatus | 16 Dec 2012 8:49 a.m. PST |
Move it far enough in its trajectory to not hit the country who could afford to send the truck up there to begin with? Interesting to think about. You can move the path of the rock away from your own country but then it's going to hit someone else. I can't imagine any leader won't take that step but how much hatred will result from the country that eventually does get hit? And will the rest of the world blame the original target even though they would have done the same thing if they could have? |
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