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, 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 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" supercomputer of NASA (or > another > one) would have already cross-checked the orbits of all the large > satellites, including those of Russia - which are within the path of this > 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. > > Surely that has been done, right ...? > > Jones > >
