[meteorite-list] Rosetta gravity assist flyby

From: Paul <bristolia_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:18:54 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <862248.11804.qm_at_web36209.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Sterling K. Webb wrote:

>There's something re-assuring about the notion
>that we could detect a "potential impactor,"
>even if we didn't immediately recognize that
>it's one of ours!

There is a discussion, which expresses similar
thoughts, of Rosetta, AKA "2007 VN84", in:

That's no near-Earth object, it's a spaceship
By Emily Lakdawalla, Nov. 9, 2007, http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001227/

Yours,

Paul H.


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Received on Mon 12 Nov 2007 04:18:54 PM PST