Re: Earth-grazing asteroids as a military resource

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 13:02:09 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

The latest New Scientist talks about asteroid 2024 YR4 being downgraded
from a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth (the 17th February estimate) to a
one in 25,000 chance on the 24th February.
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It's some where between 40 and 90 metres in diameter. Presumably there
are more smaller asteroids (which will be harder to see).
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Eventually some military clown is going to get the idea finding a few of
them and sending up stick-on ion drives, so that the earth-grazing
orbits can be shifted into earth-impacting orbits.
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A couple of them hitting Russian occupied-areas of the Ukraine would
upset Putin no end.

Isn't Russian-occupied Ukraine already a mined wasteland?
You think Putin gives a damn?

Throwing rocks? It may come to that, if the conflict goes on
long enough without aid. Look at Gaza.

Aid that is already withdrawn isn't a threat or bargaining
chip, it's simple betrayal.

RL