To: presidio9
"Astronomer Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has said that about 15 percent of the objects 460 feet wide and larger have been found, and only 5 percent of objects down to about 164 feet (50 meters) in size."
Hmmm. I'm sure he is basing this on some statistical model, but I can't help but think there's a certain amount of arbitrariness to these percentages...
2 posted on
08/13/2009 1:48:32 PM PDT by
Hegemony Cricket
(The emperor has no pedigree.)
To: Hegemony Cricket; MIchaelTArchangel; a fool in paradise; Blueflag; Snickering Hound
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Who are these guys kidding? This is just a handout request. We've had the ability to destroy hundreds of these things for a quarter since about 1979, and for free at home on an Arari system a couple of years later.
9 posted on
08/13/2009 1:59:57 PM PDT by
presidio9
("Don't shoot. Let 'em burn.")
To: Hegemony Cricket
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Here's a solution.....don't know how to get it into space.
19 posted on
08/13/2009 2:26:34 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
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