Please apply some common sense. The object was too small to detect
and was totally unexpected. Even if it was detected with enough time
to launch a missile, why do this?
Ed
On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]>
wrote:
I believe he's referring to the appearance of a glowing object
approaching
from _behind_ the main mass that correlates in time and direction
to the
ejection of fragments with its disappearance into the main mass.
Yes, we're
talking delta-velocities that are outside of plausible explanation by
ballistic missiles or any other known propulsion technology.
Ignoring the
out-going fragments, the most plausible explanation I can come up
with for
this approach-from-behind object is modification of the source
footage. An
optical artifact doesn't cut it due to the time correlation with the
expulsion of fragments unless someone can come up with a optical
artifact
that would also explain those fragments.
According to this wikipedia entry the russian's posses a missle that
could have conceivably intercepted the meteor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2UTTKh_Topol-M
The first stage has three rocket motors developed by the Soyuz Federal
Center for Dual-Use Technologies. This gives the missile a much higher
acceleration than other ICBM types. It enables the missile to
accelerate to the speed of 7,320 m/s and to travel a flatter
trajectory to distances of up to 10,000 km
harry
