mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
True, however I don't see the sense in painting only one side white. Why
not the
whole thing?
That's what I meant. I did not mean to give it a spin. I meant sunlight
will push it the way it pushes a Crooks radiometer, although there is some
question whether that
In reply to David Roberson's message of Tue, 5 Feb 2013 00:27:20 -0500 (EST):
Hi,
[snip]
Have you ever tried to paint an asteroid? :-)
Have you ever tried to paint half an asteroid? :)
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
In reply to David Roberson's message of Tue, 5 Feb 2013 00:27:20 -0500 (EST):
Hi,
[snip]
Have you ever tried to paint an asteroid? :-)
Have you ever tried to paint half an asteroid? :)
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:48:08 -0500:
Hi,
Upon thinking further about this, painting it may not actually make much
difference at all, because some of the photons are already reflected, and most
of those absorbed are radiated again more or less straight away,
Paintball railgun.
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
Paintball railgun.
From Earth, you mean?!? Wow! We gotta make one of them. Splat the moon!
I recall that in the early 1950s someone planning a moon rocket thought
about loading it with flower or white powder so that when it impacted on
the moon they
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
Paintball railgun.
From Earth, you mean?!? Wow! We gotta make one of them. Splat the moon!
I want to shoot it!
for hunting.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 10:08 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote
Eric Walker wrote:
If the mass of an orbiting satellite is sufficient to deflect the
incoming asteroid, I doubt the asteroid is big enough to do much upon
impact. If the asteroid is big enough to do much, I doubt the mass of
a satellite would deflect it even by a small amount.
I agree. Bear
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:02:45 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
Eric Walker wrote:
If the mass of an orbiting satellite is sufficient to deflect the
incoming asteroid, I doubt the asteroid is big enough to do much upon
impact. If the asteroid is big enough to do much, I
mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
This one is not as wide as it is long, so I estimate the mass at about
7
tons.
So it is about the same as a 1.5 ton car whacking into 20 g songbird. Not
likely to deflect the path much. But even a tiny effect will change the
orbit significantly over time. That
The unspoken assumption is that the asteroid is composed of normal matter -
and if so, then it would take substantial mass to deflect it.
What would be the effect of an asteroid composed of other kinds of matter
- such as mirror matter in our solar system, and was there a precedent for
that
Interesting.
I had not heard of mirror matter before, Definite shares of a certain Star
Trek episode.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
The unspoken assumption is that the asteroid is composed of normal
matter – and if so, then it would take substantial
4, 2013 5:13 pm
Subject: RE: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
The unspoken assumption isthat the asteroid is composed of normal matter – and
if so, then it wouldtake substantial mass to deflect it.
What would be the effectof an asteroid composed of “other” kinds of matter –
such asmirror matter
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
…there are some who think that the Tunguska event was a comet or asteroid
composed of another kind of matter.
If this is something like anti-matter and it whacks into a satellite, I
assume that would cause a large explosion. Wouldn't it?
I doubt the
this scenario?
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:13 pm
Subject: RE: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
The unspoken assumption is that the asteroid is composed of normal
matter – and if so
FWIW - this interesting paper turned up just now in pursuit of other models
of mirror hydrogen (there are many besides the one of Robert Foot, which
is the most well-known).
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0111381.pdf
Stewart's view seems to be somewhat similar, but now we are presented with
I think 95% of the universe's energy is collapsed and locked behind that
small surface area of particles that I consider micro black hole balls of
entropy. Which is very good for life else the tremendous heat and
radiation would kill us. Interestingly, if you run the calculator at the
following
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:31:30 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
So it is about the same as a 1.5 ton car whacking into 20 g songbird. Not
likely to deflect the path much. But even a tiny effect will change the
orbit significantly over time. That is why they are talking about
: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 11:03 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:31:30 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
So it is about the same as a 1.5 ton car whacking into 20 g songbird. Not
likely to deflect the path much. But even a tiny effect will change
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:20:49 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
I doubt the Tunguska event was caused by anything other than normal matter,
but on the other hand they have found no sign of the meteorite.
.if it was a gravel meteorite then it may have broken up completely while
In reply to David Roberson's message of Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:29:27 -0500 (EST):
Hi,
[snip]
Even if they spin, the reflection from the painted side would generate a net
force away from the sun's location. This assumes your paint is more
reflective than the raw untreated surface.
True, however I
, Feb 4, 2013 11:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
In reply to David Roberson's message of Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:29:27 -0500 (EST):
Hi,
[snip]
Even if they spin, the reflection from the painted side would generate a net
force away from the sun's location. This assumes your paint is more
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:27 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote:
Have you ever tried to paint an asteroid? :-)
You could have a lot of fun time with rockets filled with paint and high
explosives.
Eric
Yeah, I think so. How do you volunteer for this mission?
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 12:29 am
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near miss - hopefully
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:27 PM, David Roberson dlrober
On Feb. 15, a week from Friday - a decent sized asteroid will come extremely
close to Earth... within the orbit of many satellites, it would seem ...
NASA sez: we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth.
How close exactly? 17,200 miles.
I would like to think that the Pleiades
Let's face it, they are still trying to track Santa Claus and believe
comets are balls of snow and ice that can pass through the sun's atmosphere
like Comet Lovejoy did and shoot x-rays and sparks millions of miles long.
Will be an interesting year ahead.
Stewart
darkmattersalot.com
On Sun,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwidzVHvbGIfeature=player_embedded
more info in this video.
Cheers:Axil
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
On Feb. 15, a week from Friday - a decent sized asteroid will come
extremely
close to Earth... within the orbit
Here are some interesting links on comet behavior if anyone is interested.
They do not behave like the snowballs I knew and loved growing up in Maine.
1. Plasma radiationhttp://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1993/93JA02532.shtml
2. Gamma
From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net\
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:08:49 PM\
On Feb. 15, a week from Friday - a decent sized asteroid will come
extremely close to Earth... within the orbit of many satellites
NASA sez: we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth.
How close
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
asteroid - and determined that in the unlikely event it hit something fairly
large in Earth orbit, the asteroid orbit could not be deflected
substantially enough to be at risk.
If the mass of an orbiting satellite is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole
The danger is not over.
A *gravitational keyhole* is a tiny region of space where a planet's
gravity would alter the orbit of a passing asteroid such that the asteroid
would collide with that planet on a given future orbital pass.
On Sun, Feb
Incoming massive comets can also pull other gravitational bodies into the
inner solar system along with them
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole
The danger is not over.
A *gravitational keyhole* is a tiny
Hi,
On 3-2-2013 23:37, ChemE Stewart wrote:
Incoming massive comets can also pull other gravitational bodies into
the inner solar system along with them
It seems to me you are looking for some kind of doomsday scenario and I
don't think that's going to happen.
Cheer up (Luke), you are
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:14:27 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
asteroid - and determined that in the unlikely event it hit something fairly
large in Earth orbit, the asteroid orbit could not be deflected
Right, about 5% light matter and 95% dark matter/energy. I am not a
doomsday guy, I just think we should realize what we are experiencing. We
have too many phenomenons IMHO. Of course ignorance is bliss and the
dinosaurs probably though those big fireballs looked cool.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at
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