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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 13:02:09 +1100
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The latest New Scientist talks about asteroid 2024 YR4 being downgraded 
from a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth (the 17th February estimate) to a 
one in 25,000 chance on the 24th February.

It's some where between 40 and 90 metres in diameter. Presumably there 
are more smaller asteroids (which will be harder to see).

Eventually some military clown is going to get the idea finding a few of 
them and sending up stick-on ion drives, so that the earth-grazing 
orbits can be shifted into earth-impacting orbits.

A couple of them hitting Russian occupied-areas of the Ukraine would 
upset Putin no end.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney