[meteorite-list] Now that's what I call manuverability!
Ron Baalke
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Aug 18 11:07:24 EDT 2005
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> "Can meteorites collide with the space station, another student asked."
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> "we can maneuver the station" to avoid them."
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> "Now this has to be some tricky driving!"
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I think he misunderstood the question, and was referring to space debris.
The space station is occassionally maneuvered to avoid colliding with
manmade space debris in Earth orbit.
Ron Baalke
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