[meteorite-list] Deep Impact, Impact

[Dawn & Gerald Flaherty]

Wow! when this is considered, imagine the mathematical precision that
underlies and forms the basis of this experiment if it's successful. Not
only time and space but incalculable "peturbations".
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com>
To: "Walter Branch" <branchw at bellsouth.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Deep Impact, Impact


> Walter Branch wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if the Deep Impact event would result in an
> > appreciable change in the orbit of Temple 1?  I know "appreciable" is
> > a relative term, and I am not talking about a massive change, but I
> > was wondering if mission scientists and investigators are looking into
> > this. -Walter Branch
>
>     It's like the world's tiniest gnat smacking into the windshield of
> the world's biggest 18-wheeler, only even less so!
>     UNLESS, it triggers a progressive breakup of a very loosely bound
> cluster-object. Then all bets are off.
>     Tempel 1's recent jetting and those reaction forces are a much
> greater effect and their tiny orbital changes are undetectable. However,
> the frequent outburst of a comet over long periods has long been known
> to alter its orbit by increments until it's very noticeable, major
> change, like arriving at perihelion days late.
>     That's why comet orbits are not strictly predictable within a
> certain range, making the future close approach of a cometary body (like
> in 2086 AD) an incalculable danger.
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
>
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