Me too On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Harry Veeder wrote:
> 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] <javascript:;>> 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]<javascript:;> > > > > 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 > >>> > >> > > > >
