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Re: Elongated asteroids

Actually, I was thinking Mars would make a great space station - a natural
one - no additional space junk:-)  Maybe we will learn how to contol
magnetism on this scale a bit more soon, long enough before 2044 to go into
action:-)

Thanks for your response,
Julia
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From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Elongated asteroids


|
|>Have we yet determined the composition of 1999 An10 (or the shape)?  Is it
|>far enough now from the glare of the sun to know it's exact magnitude for
|>determining it's composition or is there another way to determine
|>composition at this stage of it's orbit?
|
|I haven't heard if any spectra measurements have been taken on the
asteroid.
|
|> Further, if it is an iron, couldn't we consider using alternate methods
of
|>deflecting it other than with solid matter,  for example with, say, a
|>massive repelling magnetic field whose source emanates from a space
station
|>somewhere at a safe distance from the atmosphere?  This is sounding quite
|>sci-fi and quite 21th century science as well.
|
|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.  However, the
|machinery to do this weighed a couple of tons.  It didn't seem feasible to
|build a magnet large enough to levitate a human being, nor does it seem
|feasible to deflect an asteroid weighing a few millions tons with
magnetism.
|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.
|
|Ron Baalke
|
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