http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwidzVHvbGI&feature=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 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 > >
