Meteor in Russia...

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wahab

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jan.didden said:
I don't think nuclear blasts are necessary. If you can detect them early enough, land a rocket on it and start pushing it off course for some hours or days. Even a relatively small push, should nudge it a few degrees out of a collision course, but you need to do it as early as possible. After all, earth is pretty small, easy to miss ;)

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If the thing is a few Km i guess that rocket propulsers wont be enough
and the only working pusher would be one or several thermo nuclear devices ,
ultimately the russian Tsar Bomba design in its full power unreleased version
would find itself being the savior of mankind.
 
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On one of the videos you can hear the sonic boom(s). I haven't yet seen a video whereby one could count the seconds & do a rough calculation as to the distance. The were several "explosions" in the video, not just one big one....a string of them, of varied intensities & timings. Truely a once in a lifetime celestial event. I got to see the comet Hyukataka in all its glory on a crystal clear cold night in 96....the thing covered nearly the entire sky, once in a lifetime.


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jan.didden said:
I don't think nuclear blasts are necessary. If you can detect them early enough, land a rocket on it and start pushing it off course for some hours or days. Even a relatively small push, should nudge it a few degrees out of a collision course, but you need to do it as early as possible. After all, earth is pretty small, easy to miss ;)

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If it's solid, thats fine. If it's a gravity held accretion, push too hard and it falls apart. I suspect it would take a very long time using a very small force. One concept is to use the mass of the spacecraft a small distance from the object, with the rockets keeping the spacecraft away. Gravitational attraction would slowly pull an aggregate object.

Nasa knew about the near miss a long time ago, but I think the meteor caught everybody pants down..

I read the meteor was the equivalent of 20 hiroshima sized bombs? Whoa.:eek:

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jneutron said:
If it's solid, thats fine. If it's a gravity held accretion, push too hard and it falls apart. I suspect it would take a very long time using a very small force. One concept is to use the mass of the spacecraft a small distance from the object, with the rockets keeping the spacecraft away. Gravitational attraction would slowly pull an aggregate object.

Nasa knew about the near miss a long time ago, but I think the meteor caught everybody pants down..

I read the meteor was the equivalent of 20 hiroshima sized bombs? Whoa.:eek:

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I doubt they never knew this one was coming in , why the radio silence..?
 
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Keep it easy.

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Richard Ellis

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The media & NASA had said that the two events(Close flyby & meteor) were un-related.....I would tend to think they are related. The one and only reason given by the authorities was " The meteor came from a different direction".
I would contend that the two 'Tennis court size' & ' SUV size' were a binary pair in orbit, the smaller got captured by Earths gravity,



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