To: Steely Tom
It would not get captured. They are talking about the pass near are grav field would nudge it's orbit just a bit. Since we can't predict WHERE it's new orbit will take it there is a chance it will intersect the earth the next time around. With something that irregular we don't really know it's mass well enough to calculate what the new orbit will look like. Putting a transponder on it would let us calculate it's current orbit more accurately and let us figure it's new orbit out much faster.
41 posted on
04/18/2005 7:53:05 AM PDT by
TalonDJ
To: TalonDJ
Putting a transponder on it would let us calculate it's current orbit more accurately and let us figure it's new orbit out much faster. UHhhh...
Wouldn't have to KNOW he orbit alREADY to even THINK about putting anything ON it??
After all, it's 1000 FEET, NOT Mars sized
137 posted on
04/18/2005 2:49:59 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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