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Planetary Society Blog article on 2004 VD17, Highest current score on the Torino scale. |
 Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM
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In case there is anyone here who doesn't keep an eye on Emily's TPS Blog she has just posted an excellent blog entry on 2004 VD17, an asteroid that currently holds the distinction of having the highest Torino scale rating (2) of any known object. The article is full of all the useful links you could ask for.
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| Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Mar 2 2006, 11:02 PM
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QUOTE (helvick @ Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM)  In case there is anyone here who doesn't keep an eye on Emily's TPS Blog... I'd be interested if anyone would be daft enough to admit that  QUOTE (helvick @ Mar 2 2006, 07:27 PM) ...she has just posted an excellent blog entry on 2004 VD17, an asteroid that currently holds the distinction of having the highest Torino scale rating (2) of any known object. The article is full of all the useful links you could ask for. I agree. That was one of the more fairly informative blog postings. |
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Mar 3 2006, 12:28 AM
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QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 2 2006, 03:02 PM) I'd be interested if anyone would be daft enough to admit that I agree. That was one of the more fairly informative blog postings. These comments made me chuckle because I get the majority of the "tips" for my blog from UMSF!  Thanks though.--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Mar 3 2006, 12:44 AM
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QUOTE Apophis (2004 MN4) is the one to watch, because its first close approach is coming up much sooner, in 30 years (2036) -- which is I think a comfortable amount of lead time to actually develop some nifty program combining a long baseline of Earth observations with some little mission. For example, you could impact Apophis with a transponder, and track it really accurately. That's great, but I'd much prefer it if we could impact Apophis with several pairs of spacesuit boots. 30 years doesn't seem like too short a time to plan -- if we started now. |
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Mar 4 2006, 04:51 PM
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Several Belgian newspapers took up the story saying it's a 1/1000 chance by the year 2104 ...
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Apr 4 2006, 02:49 PM
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Asteroids: treasures of the past and a threat to the future
If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 – about 500 m in diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes - collides with the Earth it could spell disaster for much of our planet. As part of ESA’s Near-Earth Object deflecting mission Don Quijote, three teams of European industries are now carrying out studies on how to prevent this. Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMC43NFGLE_index_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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