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Re: Elongated asteroids
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- Subject: Re: Elongated asteroids
- From: "Gene Marlin" <rmarlin@network-one.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:47:56 -0500
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- Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:50:59 -0400 (EDT)
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>I recently saw a TV show using magnetism for levitation.
>They essentially built a huge magnet, and were able to levitate
>small objects, and even a frog, within a magnetic field.
Holbrook, anyone? :-)
Let's charter an airplane over Barringer Crater.
>And even if you were able to build such a huge magnet, you run the risk of
>attracting an iron asteroid instead of repelling it.
How about getting enough energy behind the magnet in the first place to stop
the asteroid?
It does no good to just be dragged alongside it, even though it might
slightly decrease the momentum of the object. (very slightly)
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