Posted on 04/10/2013 5:31:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Spending more money on asteroid and meteor detection techniques won't necessarily make the planet safer, according to a planetary scientist.
Alexander Deutsch, a professor of planetology at the University of Münster in Germany, explained that the relatively small meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February would not have been detected using technologies available around the world today.
"The problem is that even if they use more of these highly sophisticated observatories, they will not find very small projectiles, but on the other hand, the small projectiles are not very dangerous, and the opinion is that the larger ones or at least most of the larger ones are now known," Deutsch said during a news conference today (April 9) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna. "I don't think more money will produce more data."
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Heard that king hussein is going to launch a campaign to map hemroids.(SP) That’s where you’ll find his head. Just past that location.
This one came out of the sun (Sunward) I believe and wasn’t even seen.
I’m good with the idea of learning about them for the same reason Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark west but a lot of that research can be done by private entities.
Any asteroid would only be sunward for three months a year or so. The rest of the time it could be spotted.
The bigger it is, the easier it is to spot. This one wasn't that big, it just blew up over a city.
Alexander Deutsch, a professor of planetology at the University of Münster in Germany, explained that the relatively small meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February would not have been detected using technologies available around the world today.IOW, the headline is BS. :') He states that the current technology isn't up to the task, but that something 50 feet across doesn't cause that much damage anyway.
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Alexander Deutsch, a professor of planetology at the University of Münster in Germany, explained that the relatively small meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February would not have been detected using technologies available around the world today.IOW, the headline is BS. :') He states that the current technology isn't up to the task, but that something 50 feet across doesn't cause that much damage anyway.
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Thanks BenLurkin. Extra to APoD members.
>>>He states that the current technology isn’t up to the task, but that something 50 feet across doesn’t cause that much damage anyway.<<<
LOL. Back to 1970-1980s both NASA and Soviet RCA tracked objects as small as a lost camcorder.
For some reason no one is interested to maintain such a capabilities now.
And 500kt yield meteor explosion doesn’t cause any damage, sure.
That is probably coming from a person who thinks SUVs and livestock are killing our planet.
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