[meteorite-list] The space program after Bush

[Don Rawlings]

Can there be any possible way to speed up the arrival
of 1-20-09?

Don

--- "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone - 
> 
> A lot of you have carbonaceous chondrites in your
> collections. They resemble charcoal, and reflect
> little light.
> 
> The 75 meter carbonaceous chondrites (comet
> fragments)
> are impossible to reliably find from the Earth.
> Trying
> to reliably find them from L1 is impossible as well,
> because the systems require too much power.
> 
> The only reason to go to the Moon is to build the
> Comet and Asteroid Protection System, which could
> not
> only reliably give warning of approaching 75 m comet
> fragments, but an additional 6 months warning of
> approaching long period comets. 
> 
> While such a system could be built by an
> international
> consortium, if it is not, whichever nation provides
> the best warning system will assume the world
> leadership role in space. 
> 
> Once on the Moon, the infrastructure cold be used
> for
> other purposes, including SETI. 
> 
> So what does Lou's meeting all mean? Not much - some
> of the manned Mars enthusiasts (note their age -
> most
> of them were raised with the concept of an
> Earth-like
> Mars) are simply trying to reposition themselves
> after
> the failure of their neo-conservative allies.
> 
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
> 
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Don Rawlings


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