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Re: Asteroid knocks out satellite?
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- Subject: Re: Asteroid knocks out satellite?
- From: WBranchsb <WBranchsb@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:33:09 EDT
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> You might want to check cnn.com and the other news services -- not
> exactly a back page story. Seems to be a navigation system failure.
> Meteorite theories tend to be part of an "anything from... to..."
> statement and the more glamorous comment gets air time. Of course, a
> micrometeoroid might have knock out the system, but anything short of
> retrieval and inspection is pure speculation. Asteroids and meteoroids
> tend to obliterate things rather than cause them to drift.
Gene (and list),
I concur. Until more data becomes available we should consider the most
parimonious explanation as the most reasonable one.
-Walter