Re: Dodging Doomsday With a Space Tug

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:57:31 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dodging Doomsday With a Space Tug
> http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/1109/3
>
> Preventing an asteroid from slamming into Earth may not require
> Hollywood bravado. Two NASA astronauts have hit upon an idea wherein
> a spacecraft uses gravity to literally tow a threatening projectile
> into safer orbit.
>
>See: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/1109/3

Has anybody proposed spinning in until it flies apart? Sure it is a
cockamamie idea.



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place


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