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Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028
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- Subject: Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:01:28 GMT
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>This may have been mentioned before but ... when an asteroid's trajectory
>is theorized, is there ever any consideration given to the chance of that
>object being impacted by a different body in the meantime, and thus changing
>it's path?
Sure it is possible, but it is a very low probability event. In fact, the
only time in human history that two objects were observed to collide
with each other was the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter.
There is a lot of empty space in space.
Ron Baalke