Small Asteroid Passes Between Satellites and Earth

science ^ | 22 December 2004 | Robert Roy Britt

[SunkenCiv]

beat me to it, but what's with the choice of topics?

Anyway, here's a tourist page with details of a 1972 event:

http://www.jimandlindabaker.com/fireball.htm

[r9etb]

You beat me to it. Sounds like they're trying to be dramatic.

Sounds like they're trying to drum up support for "asteroid defense" and all of the lucrative contracts that entails.

[SunkenCiv]

A snip of the film Linda took appears in this:

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[ASA Vet]

Maybe you could convince jeff to flesh it out with you.

[Shryke]

It's time you told your JPL boys to launch the Solution:

[Young Werther]

Main Entry: me·te·or·ite

Pronunciation: 'mE-tE-&-"rIt

Function: noun

: a meteor that reaches the surface of the earth without being completely vaporized

Since it didn't enter the atmosphere it remained a METEOR! I have it on good authority that one astromomer's Ass troid is another's meteor!

[Deaf Smith]

Think back to around 1976 when the Russian Satellites picked up five flashes from our silos in Montana (sunlight from the silo decks) and the Russian computers said that this was a launch.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Even though a planetoid can approach the size of a moon, since it is in solar orbit, it cannot be classified as a moon.

What kind of spin are you putting on this? Isn't the Moon's orbit always concave to the Sun? Doesn't the Little Turtle orbit the Medium Turtle which in turn orbits the Great Turtle implying the Little Turtle at least epi-orbits the Great Turtle. (Or would the Law of Conservation make them spin backwards?)

[Mr. K]

I read that too
very good

I would stil like to read your story
I've always wanted to write sci-fi too

[RadioAstronomer]

Doesn't the Little Turtle orbit the Medium Turtle which in turn orbits the Great Turtle implying the Little Turtle at least epi-orbits the Great Turtle.

Dude!! You haven’t been keeping up! Didn't you know that they recently discovered they were actually tortoises?

Or would the Law of Conservation make them spin backwards?

Only if they fall exactly on the equatorial plane. hehehe

[RadioAstronomer]

LOL!!! :-)

[RadioAstronomer]

It's time you told your JPL boys to launch the Solution:

See post #22. It's in work. :-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

You're right. Terrapins are just a cult.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Asteroid? Not a meteorite? Are they just trying the sound dramatic?

Yes. Asteroid sounds a lot scarier than meteorite.

[RadioAstronomer]

Yes. Asteroid sounds a lot scarier than meteorite.

Not quite. It becomes a meteorite only after it has hit the Earth's surface.

[RadioAstronomer]

You're right. Terrapins are just a cult.

The cult of the edible solar system. :-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Well the Cult of Chelonia is only a shell of its former glory.

[Old Professer]

By definition a meteorite is an airborne natural object that has burned through the atmosphere to come to rest on our planet's surface; a meteor is any object coursing within our atmosphere and an asteroid is a rock flying about without our atmosphere, I believe.

[Old Professer]

You beat me to it again.

[RadioAstronomer]

Are you sure it's not the "Mark of glory? :-)

http://www.l2orphus.com/quests.php?id=220