In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:14:27 -0800: Hi, [snip] >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
For those interested, if it were to impact the resultant explosion would be about 1.25 MTon of TNT. (About the size of a fairly large nuke.) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
