[bruinbirdman]

University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey has another goal besides locating asteroids and calculating earth collision probability. That is to predict the probabilities of asteroid on asteroid collisions or near collisions (gravity effect of near misses) and resulting orbits.

Wonder how many asteroid orbits they look at before finding one near miss to report. Maybe they only report discovering a near miss when their funding review comes up. Kinda like NASA always finding water on Mars about every other year at budget time.

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[sageb1]

:) 'nite...and thanks.