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
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