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To: aft_lizard
Anybody know if that’s close enough to be captured or is the speed of the Asteroid too great?

That's not how Celestial Mechanics work!

Unless an object strikes the Earth (or is at least slowed down by the Earth's atmosphere = aerobraking), it will fly by it (assuming that the object, itself, doesn't have thrusters).

Regards,

17 posted on 11/09/2018 9:24:59 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

If that thing deviates a little inward we could have a problem. Stuff hits our atmosphere all the time. Most of it is small and burns up. Some stuff impacts. And some things streak in and keep going on out. It’s a crapshoot. But something big will hit us at some point, of that you can be certain.


20 posted on 11/09/2018 9:41:45 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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