From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: [Starlink] Hitting an atira asteroid with a spacex starship?
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 10:28:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw7HemgtgU-A7Ugqq-04M3UoBxkySndruY1WpGZ78g_T3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
So, what would happen if we hit one of these (3 new ones discovered
yesterday) with 50tons of starship, at 15 klicks per second? [1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atira_asteroid
the three new ones, discovered and announced a day or three back:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-near-earth-asteroids-were-hiding-in-the-suns-glare-180981055/
(Atira class are rocks within earth orbit. They are very hard to see,
probably overly baked (low on volatiles), and get bright sun all the
time)
[1] I'm very inspired by DART, but afraid to do the math for this
tonnage and speed. (anyone? there's a LOT of zeroes... ) I have
project ploughshare on my mind, except kinetic, and it's less
deflection on my mind than reducing a rubble pile to rubble,
identifying the good pieces, and bringing them back.
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next reply other threads:[~2022-11-03 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-03 17:28 Dave Taht [this message]
2022-11-03 17:37 ` Bruce Perens
2022-11-03 17:52 ` Dave Taht
2022-11-04 3:48 ` Bruce Perens
2022-11-04 5:09 ` Ulrich Speidel
2022-11-03 17:54 ` Paul McKenney
2022-11-03 18:11 ` Dave Collier-Brown
2022-11-03 18:17 ` Dave Collier-Brown
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