Comments on: Astronomers investigate Earth’s other moons /news/2012/04/10/earths-other-moons/ News from the University of Hawaii Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2012/04/10/earths-other-moons/#comment-15107 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:56:04 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=5481#comment-15107 In reply to Edwin Caldeira.

Back in late 2000 one such asteroid 2000 SG344 the first-ever predicted potential impacter, scheduled for 9-21-2030, probability 0.2% (a PHO of above-level-0 on the Torino scale), estimated size 30-70 m (estimably a 100 Mton-equ. tenth-Tunguska-type-event) was supposed to have the exact constituency of an Apollo S-IVB stage: used…

Equally-or-more interesting would be all the other shepherded asteroids that never get close enough to Earth to garner attention… should have an entire Mission-To-Counter-Earth (Think “Extinction-Scale Event”)….

Ray.

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By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2012/04/10/earths-other-moons/#comment-13790 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:37:32 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=5481#comment-13790 The minimoons, are the minimemes, of spacetravelers:
Like prebound asteroids, pieces of Earth, come home:
Like pinwheel-elevators of sci’fi’ists’ degravity…
Things withwhich, to hitch one’s waggin’, to a star:

There’s lots, we can do, with minimoons,

’til the terrorists, get hold of one:

Shades of Enos’ Bulls Of Heaven…

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By: Edwin Caldeira /news/2012/04/10/earths-other-moons/#comment-13718 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:03:43 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=5481#comment-13718 It is interesting the irratic travel patterns of these mini moons. I also would be fascinated to find out what the mini moon’s material make up would be made up of. It would surely be a great task to find one to analize… Aloha.

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