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Re: Asteroid knocks out satellite?



> 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