However, with a mass that large, your acceleration will be low and if your constantly checking your trajectory, you can correct it with plenty of time.
>From: Ian Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ERPS Main List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [ERPS] Cute Asteroid >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:28:12 +0100 > >Michael Wallis wrote: > >>My concern is still the failure mode of some tired space miner >>shooting his pile of refined metal into the Earth instead of beside >>it. It's much too easy to flip a sign or transpose a digit (or use the >>wrong system of measurement) and throw several tons of metal at >>innocent people. >> >Provided you break it up into small pieces it should be no problem. I don't >think we could, or should, try to move the whole 100m asteroid as a lump... >the failure modes would be a huge issue. > >But it's perfectly possible to turn it into lumps the size of your >finger and stuff it in a plastic bag. >I really doubt that would survive reentry- the surface area is too high- >it would burn up. >You might get a sonic boom on the ground, but that's all. Even then, >you'd want to >control the total mass of each package of course. > >>Michael >> > Tony Fredericks "Mind that bus!" Amateur Rocket Scientist "What Bus?" E.R.P.S. Member SPLAT!! - Arnold Rimmer _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
