[meteorite-list] Trojan Asteroid Patroclus: Comet in Disguise?

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Hola Sterling!, List!

Nice to see you back posting some whimsically plausible astronomy again, so 
as to prevent some of us (one of us?) from getting stir crazy.  If I were a 
developer eyeing the Patroclus system, I would go all out for the awe inspiration 
and shameless marketing,,

How about adding some "vision" to your plan?  Instead of a mere ten degree 
single "moon" standard Missouri position, I propose we put the hotel instead at 
the metastable center of gravity of the two body system.  Now you get to be in 
the middle of two irregular shaped planetoids, both tumbling around you 
FILLING 20 DEGREES OF ARC EACH, for double the pleasure.  That would be forty full 
moons in apparent diameter a piece, under continuoius view.  

Promo: Your glass house awaits you!  Be naughty and indulge your seetheart 
this Valentine's Day.  Wedge yourselves in between two of the solar system's 
most beautiful heavenly bodies and experience celestial harmony like in no other 
place.  Rich?  Think the world revolves around you?  Think again!  Be the 
first on your block with bragging rights of a loving evening with two worlds 
revolving around you, in muted and flickering solar light.  Your worlds even come 
in his and hers versions...

FINE PRINT FOT THE CHESS CLUB: two for one geek-special during excessive 
black out dates where an eclipse can be a exciting as watching the Sun go behind 
floating mountains...free guided tour by Oriental Robotics programmed with 
sweet feminine voices to describe the simplicity of the Newtonian Compensating 
propulsion system...off the shelf piezo elements detect acceleration above the 
threshold setting and manipulate the reflective properties of the glass hotel 
hull utilizing the energy of the photons to maintain equilibrium.  Extra charge 
to watch one of the Xenon ionic thrusters smoothly stabilize the hotels 
position for one of the rare ocassions when the major axis of one of the bodies 
aligns with the hotel's radial vector for a breathtaking view, and perturbs by 
resonance the hotel beyond the corrective capabilities of the reflective 
propulsion system...

Saludos, Doug

En un mensaje con fecha 02/02/2006 12:08:52 AM Mexico Standard Time, 
sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net escribe:

<< Unlike our puny Full Moon, which fills only
 1/2 degree of the sky, the other binary would
 appear to loom in the sky spanning 10.67
 degrees! 21 times the diameter of a Full Moon!
 
     Here is obviously the place to build the
 Honeymoon Hotel of the Future. Come to
 Patroclus! (Can't we do something about
 that name?)
  >>