Comrades! Death to the hooligan asteroid!

Frogwatch wrote:
On Dec 30, 10:57 pm, J0nathan Non Grata wrote:
"Jonathan" wrote:
So shouldn't we try moving into it's path?
Please. Would you?

Like before you post again?

Better idea, put it into an orbit that has it just a bit before or
after the earth in the same orbit.

That would require large change in its orbit. How would that be achieved?

Sylvia.

On Dec 31, 2:08*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:
That would require large change in its orbit. How would that be achieved?

Enlightened and dedicated socialist endeavor by The New Soviet Man?
No, I guess that's out.
Hiring the Chinese to do it?
Aye lassie, that's the ticket. :-D

Pat

I want em to nuke it.

Val Kraut wrote:

So they got something that ain't broke and they're gonna fix it.

It's just another vaporware Russian space project that won't get built,
although given the perversity of the universe, I could picture them
deflecting it in such a way that it then _would_ hit Earth. :-)

Pat

Sylvia Else wrote:

That would require large change in its orbit. How would that be achieved?

Enlightened and dedicated socialist endeavor by The New Soviet Man?
No, I guess that's out.
Hiring the Chinese to do it?
Aye lassie, that's the ticket. :-D

Pat

Frogwatch wrote:
On Dec 31, 2:08 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:
That would require large change in its orbit. How would that be achieved?
Enlightened and dedicated socialist endeavor by The New Soviet Man?
No, I guess that's out.
Hiring the Chinese to do it?
Aye lassie, that's the ticket. :-D

Pat

I want em to nuke it.

You mean, scatter its component parts (it's probably a rubble pile) so
as to guarantee that a fair number will hit Earth?

Sylvia.

Sylvia Else wrote:

"closer than some geo-stationary satellites" ?

Geo-stationary satellites operate at varying distances?

This could be a screw up with translation, as Russia has used satellites
with highly elliptical orbits (Molniya orbits) that also have a 24 hour
period.

On Dec 30, 11:23*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:

"closer than some geo-stationary satellites" ?

Geo-stationary satellites operate at varying distances?

This could be a screw up with translation, as Russia has used satellites
with highly elliptical orbits (Molniya orbits) that also have a 24 hour
period.

Indeed, the miss could be converted into a hit the next time around
by the scattered parts.

And it could to an excuse to do a bit of very above ground nuclear
bomb testing. That sounds much more Putin than saving the planet.

On Dec 31, 12:39*pm, OM wrote:
...And they were pretty proud of these spy...er..,"weather" sats, too.
Released at least two stamps commemorating them, which was the one
thing positive you have to give the Evil Soviet Empire credit for...

Were they...*evil* stamps? (Twirls handlebar mustache.)

Damien Valentine wrote:
On Dec 31, 12:39 pm, OM wrote:
...And they were pretty proud of these spy...er..,"weather" sats, too.
Released at least two stamps commemorating them, which was the one
thing positive you have to give the Evil Soviet Empire credit for...

Were they...*evil* stamps? (Twirls handlebar mustache.)

Now Rusty has dissed the Ruskies in a updated article about Apophis:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009...es/#more-21127
The Schweickarmeister says that Perminov is puffing on a Cuban cigar and
blowing smoke up our assteroids.

Pat

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tatelephone, Pat
Flannery wrote:

Sylvia Else wrote:

"closer than some geo-stationary satellites" ?

Geo-stationary satellites operate at varying distances?

This could be a screw up with translation, as Russia has used satellites
with highly elliptical orbits (Molniya orbits) that also have a 24 hour
period.

Molniya orbits are 12 hour orbits that are 'approximately
geostationary' at apogee, which they achieve at a latitude of ~63.4
degrees. This inclination ( i=acos(sqrt(1/5)) ) cancels out the
precession in the argument of perigee (i.e. if the apogee starts out at
the Northernmost point in the orbit, it stays there) and is well placed
for those far above the decadent temperate latitudes.

Tundra orbits are the 24 hour orbits at the same latitude, and are
currently used only by Sirius Radio satellites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_orbit

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David M. Palmer (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com)