[worry] Should I be worried about this?
Posted by leMel42
| September 03, 2011 05:55PM |
Part I
NASA/JPL has a pretty cool site that calcs and digrams the orbits of solar system bodies.
Looking at the orbit diagram for (apollo, neo) 2005 YU55, one gets a rather disturbing result when setting the date to Nov 8, 2011.
Should I be worried about this?
[ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
NASA/JPL has a pretty cool site that calcs and digrams the orbits of solar system bodies.
Looking at the orbit diagram for (apollo, neo) 2005 YU55, one gets a rather disturbing result when setting the date to Nov 8, 2011.
Should I be worried about this?
[ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
| September 03, 2011 06:20PM |
| September 03, 2011 08:30PM |
crap!
animation of Nov 8 pass: [neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
Well, this guy's even closer (6/24/2028) 0.6 LD compared to 0.8 LD, though it pierces the equatorial plane a ways past.
[ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
end Part I
animation of Nov 8 pass: [neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
Well, this guy's even closer (6/24/2028) 0.6 LD compared to 0.8 LD, though it pierces the equatorial plane a ways past.
[ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
end Part I
| September 03, 2011 08:53PM |
| September 04, 2011 03:57AM |
From that point of view I'd rather be worried about some idiots (read: the Chinese) wanting to move asteroids into Earth's orbit by nudging them in our direction so they can mine them.
[www.google.com]
Now really, what could possibly go wrong?!? /sarcasm
[www.google.com]
Now really, what could possibly go wrong?!? /sarcasm
| September 04, 2011 07:01PM |
thomas Wrote:
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> From that point of view I'd rather be worried
> about some idiots (read: the Chinese) wanting to
> move asteroids into Earth's orbit by nudging them
> in our direction so they can mine them.
>
> [www.google.com]
> roid+mining&&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
> Now really, what could possibly go wrong?!?
> /sarcasm
Yeah, when I read about that I thought that for the first time recklessness on the part of others' non-military space ambitions could seriously harm us all. The Russian plan a few years back to unfold a giant mirror in space comes to mind. Something I bet we (Americans) thought we'd never have to consider. There was an SF story described to me about prisoners sent to mine the moon and send back payloads of minerals, and then they figured out how to aim the payloads at cities and held Earth hostage.
Oh, and regarding the Chinese plan, I expect full credit for not making the easy joke about [REDACTED].
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> From that point of view I'd rather be worried
> about some idiots (read: the Chinese) wanting to
> move asteroids into Earth's orbit by nudging them
> in our direction so they can mine them.
>
> [www.google.com]
> roid+mining&&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
> Now really, what could possibly go wrong?!?
> /sarcasm
Yeah, when I read about that I thought that for the first time recklessness on the part of others' non-military space ambitions could seriously harm us all. The Russian plan a few years back to unfold a giant mirror in space comes to mind. Something I bet we (Americans) thought we'd never have to consider. There was an SF story described to me about prisoners sent to mine the moon and send back payloads of minerals, and then they figured out how to aim the payloads at cities and held Earth hostage.
Oh, and regarding the Chinese plan, I expect full credit for not making the easy joke about [REDACTED].
| September 04, 2011 07:38PM |
Also, to be fair, European Space Agency has talked of similar ... [www.technologyreview.com]
| September 05, 2011 01:27AM |
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