Unless the russian meteor was tracked for a period of time before it entered earth's atmosphere, extropolating the orbit of the Russian meteor into the past seems like guess work to me.
harry On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Alexander Hollins <[email protected]> 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. > > 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 >>> >> >
