| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
on WBZ this AM...a brief one liner in the news about an
Asteroid, headed for earth..." could be deflected by a orbiting
nuclear device or a mirror that would melt it into a harmles size"
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| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 875.1 | Sound bites can be dangerous | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Nov 04 1993 13:07 | 3 |
Were they talking about a specific planetoid or just how to
deflect an approaching one in general?
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| 875.2 | HELIX::MAIEWSKI | Thu Nov 04 1993 13:59 | 14 | ||
There was a story in the Boston Globe today that covered a dialogue somewhere (I forget where) in which some scientist or other speculated that nuclear devices might not be needed to deflect an asteroid headed toward earth. In stead, he recommended that a giant mirror be placed in space which would focus light on a small part of the asteroid causing a jetstream of material to be ejected acting as a thruster which would divert the asteroid away from earth. The feeling was that the presence of nuclear devices large enough to move an asteroid might be more dangerous in the long run than the expected damage that might be caused by an asteroid hitting the earth. George | |||||