Rik's Ramblings

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Hitch a ride ...

Animation of the trajectory for asteroid 2005 YU55 - November 8-9, 2011
See: NASA Asteroid and Comet Watch

This would have been a great opportunity to hitch a ride on an asteroid. The darn thing was only a "couple of miles" away when it went by. And we've known it was coming for a while too.

Someone should have launched a probe that would get trapped in it's orbit and follow the blighter into deep space. Let's see where it's going.

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