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From: TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:59:44 +0000
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On 04/03/2025 02:02, Bill Sloman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Excellent suggestion.! Needs some clever maths calcs though...

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