I would like to see a plot of the orbit of the rock that hit Russia. It may be possible that it was associated with the asteroid a very long time ago and became deflected on a fly by that happened when no one was looking. I suspect that the time frame for near misses of the pair would vary, but there may be some form of synchronization occurring that we have not modeled accurately.
The fact that both of these events happened so close together just does not seem likely since both are infrequent. Talk of a miracle in cold fusion; this seems like one in astronomy. How about a conspiricy theory? An alien race sent the small one as a shot across our bow. They thought that we were far to intelligent to think that this was a coincidence and would understand the message. The warning is that we had better prepare to deflect a big one that will come our way one day. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 10:46 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured > A comment in line with my sine vs cycloid thinking : > Indeed, it gives an orbital period of 153 millenia -- so they're > pretty much travelling in the same direction. No cycloid motion. 153372146.1 years Oops : not 153 MILLennia .. but 153 MEGennia
