To: Names Ash Housewares
a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a presumably defunct Russian Cosmos satellite ran into each otherAccidently or intentionally?
5 posted on
02/11/2009 1:41:50 PM PST by
Joiseydude
(Obama: "Putting my ideals into effect are more important than your safety from terrorist acts")
To: Joiseydude
It should be pretty easy for the guys at Space Command to tell if the Russians made a change in orbit. I don't know how much the Iridium can change its orbit, but unless there is evidence otherwise it looks like the Iridium will be cited.
18 posted on
02/11/2009 1:46:57 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: Joiseydude
To: Joiseydude
>>Accidently or intentionally?<<
Precisely!
Most people have no idea how much “space” there really is up there. The likelyhood of this accidentally happening is astronomically small.
No pun intended.
I don’t think Vince Foster committed suicide either...
40 posted on
02/11/2009 2:00:13 PM PST by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
To: Joiseydude
Accidently or intentionally? The fundamental fact about space is that it is BIG. An accidental collision between satellites is so unlikely that this collision, especially taking place over Siberia, has to be a Russian military test.
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