"Lise Eleanor" wrote in message
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Hi Ugo

Thanks for your input.

Okay, would this work if I wrote it into my script (this is the very
opening
scene):

EXT. DEEP SPACE - NIGHT

A flaming asteroid knifes through blackness, Jupiter looming in its path.
It
strikes an invisble barrier around Jupiter's surface and skitters off on a
new collision course.

1: Asteroids don't flame. You *could* have the asteroid pass close to
Jupiters cloudtops, and have it's orbit changed. If you recall the movie
2010, they used atmospheric braking to slow down the spaceship and put it
into orbit around Jupiter. This would give you a trailing cloud, and Ok, if
it was going fast enough, the orbit would be altered.

There is no invisible barrier around Jupiter, unless you want to count the
outer atmosphere.





FADE TO BLACK

....

??

Or, would it be INNER SPACE? OUTER SPACE?

As the asteroid approaches Earth, I call it just SPACE.


*grin*

You can't see me right now, but I AM laughing at myself. I don't blame you
if you think this sounds silly. I just want to be sure it's correct.
--
From the Desk of Lise Eleanor
http://www3.sympatico.ca/l_e/
"Ugo" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:21:51 -0400, Lise Eleanor wrote:
Originally I said an asteroid collides with Jupiter and a piece of
Jupiter
breaks off and becomes the rogue asteroid heading for Earth. But, it
seems
that it is actually an asteroid that would hit Jupiter and BOUNCE OFF
JUPITER and on into space.

Am I understanding this correctly?

No, the text meant a collision with another asteroid OR gravitational
influence by Jupiter. Not a collision with Jupiter. An asteroid can
simply
approach Jupiter (without impacting into it) and Jupiter's massive
gravity
can significantly alter its orbit. This means that an otherwise "safe"
asteroid, whose orbit didn't intersect Earth's can become a hazard in its
new orbit.

Either way, I'm sure that whatever hit Jupiter would simply be absorbed
by
it, producing nothing more than a "puff of gas", most of which would also
fall back to Jupiter.

And, if I am understanding, could this asteroid hit earth if on the
right
trajectory?

Yes, if the conditions were right and the asteroid orbit crossed the
Earth's.
Mind you, it would probably take a *long* time after the collision or
Jupiter encounter before if would hit us...

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The butler did it.