[meteorite-list] Ready To Tackle Armageddon (Don Quixote Mission)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:09 2004
Message-ID: <200208091702.KAA00552_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> Hey All,
> I just hope they knock it the right way and not towards us. Remember the
> Peter Principle. Steve
>

The impact of the spacecraft on the asteroid would be very insubstantial. It would
take something like a nuclear bomb to get any significent change in orbit.
Incidently, the same experiment will be performed with the Deep Impact mission, when
its probe impacts into a comet.

Ron Baalke
Received on Fri 09 Aug 2002 01:02:33 PM PDT