On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
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. > If the mass of an orbiting satellite is sufficient to deflect the incoming asteroid, I doubt the asteroid is big enough to do much upon impact. If the asteroid is big enough to do much, I doubt the mass of a satellite would deflect it even by a small amount. Eric
