On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Alexander Hollins wrote:
if it were in orbit around it, there would have been an additional
vector to its motion. Tracking information verified a straight line
trajectory from what I've read. Good thought though.
If the orbit was as large as would be required to account for the 16
hour difference between the meteor and the asteroid reaching the
earth, it would look like a straight line based on the small amount of
contrail that was visible. No other data is available as far as I know.
As for what the media says, are we to believe that at least three very
rare events happened at nearly the same time? Is that conclusion less
plausible than the one I propose? In any case, an orbit exists that
would cause the effect, so I do not see how this idea can be rejected.
Ed
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:19 AM, 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. Overlooked in this discussion
was at least one other large meteor reported near Cuba, which could
have been part of the same swarm. This is important because any
close encounter with an asteroid might result in the earth being
bombarded by large rocks coming from directions different from the
path of the asteroid as the asteroid gets close. This makes
protection that much more difficult.
Ed
On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
I would point out:
1. The event did occur.
2. A causal connection between the two objects seems exceedingly
unlikely, since they came from different directions at different
times. No one has suggested how there could be a connection, as far
as I know.
3. Therefore it is coincidence, no matter how unlikely that may seem.
- Jed
