Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote: I suggested an explanation that apparently was lost in the discussion. > Suppose each asteroid has a swarm of smaller rocks in orbit around it. > Suppose one of these rocks was in an orbit that caused it to approach the > earth from the opposite direction at the time of the meteor strike in > Russia.
I have not been following the story closely, but the mass media reports say that astronomers have looked into various scenarios like this and they have concluded that the two bodies could not have influenced one another, or been influenced by a third body. That's my understanding. - Jed
