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UHF1211 t1_j6ha6u7 wrote
Reply to comment by SavageRat in Asteroids sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection by coinfanking
How do we know there would be water on an asteroid headed for earth? Not all installer objects have liquids on them. How long would it take to deduce this and would this time be better spent trying other ways of deflecting it?
UHF1211 t1_j6ev1uu wrote
Reply to comment by HIMP_Dahak_172291 in Asteroids sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection by coinfanking
This is true if close enough and it would need to be pretty close, space is big and that heat would dissipate rather quickly otherwise but still perhaps just enough to push it ever so slightly out of the way.
UHF1211 t1_j6eb2r4 wrote
Reply to comment by SavageRat in Asteroids sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection by coinfanking
Wouldn’t work, there is no air in space. Something would have to be attached to the asteroid or hit it in order to nudge it a bit.
UHF1211 t1_iwol87p wrote
Reply to comment by wanted_to_upvote in Is there a website that shows the current position of the Orion capsule? by grandchester
It also has to swing way out in order to turn and catch up with the Moon. Fascinating the trajectory involved with getting it there!
UHF1211 t1_iwodzx3 wrote
Reply to comment by UHF1211 in Is there a website that shows the current position of the Orion capsule? by grandchester
It’s sort of what you are looking for. I believe they put up a diagram from time to time showing prox earth/moon but there isn’t really a way to show exact location.
UHF1211 t1_ja0h6b4 wrote
Reply to A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center by TradingAllIn
It looks like that old car Elon sent into space!😂