Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Are we in trouble, Comet coming for us?

0.0453 AU (4.2 million miles) is a reasonable miss distance. Also, those orbit diagrams are based on a very simplified set of equations. There is zero chance of it hitting, and capture into orbit around Earth is impossible at that distance because nothing can orbit Earth more than about 850,000 miles.

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