RESS Cryptic - UK plan to track asteroid threat.

RESS · (#1 (**permalink**))

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UK plan to track asteroid threat

Apex would spend three years studying the space rock

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UK space scientists and engineers have designed a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
The 300m-wide (980ft) rock, known as Apophis, will fly past Earth in April 2029 at a distance that is closer than many communications satellites.

Astrium, based in Stevenage, Herts, wants a probe to track the asteroid so its orbit can be better understood.

The concept will compete for a $50,000 (£25,000) Planetary Society prize, but a full mission would cost millions.

The British design calls for a small, remote-sensing spacecraft, dubbed Apex (Apophis Explorer), which could rendezvous with Apophis in January 2014.

It would then spend the next three years tracking the rock, sending data back to Earth about the object's size, shape, spin, composition and temperature.

From this information, orbit modelling would enable a more accurate prediction of the risk of any future collision. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Orbits the Sun every 324 days, crossing Earth's orbit twice
Not spherical, diameter of 300m; a mass of 27m tonnes
Name: Ancient Egyptian god Apep ('The Destroyer')
Discovery: In 2004 by a University of Hawaii team

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | UK plan to track asteroid threat

Apophis (Apep)

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In Egyptian mythology, Apep (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was an evil demon, the deification of darkness and chaos (isfet in Egyptian), and thus opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth), whose existence was believed from the Middle Kingdom onwards. His name is reconstructed by Egyptologists as *ʕAʔpāpī because of written ʕ3pp(y), surviving into later Coptic as Aphōph.

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15. Will problems in one racist organisation affect other racist organisations?

It is often assumed that problems in one large racist organisation will automatically spread to other racist organisations and endanger the entire system of Institutional Racism and White Supremacist ideology. This has not been proven. There is no empirical evidence to support that idea. In all White Supremacist crises in recent times the problems became systematic only where other racist organisations were all exposed to more or less the same extraneous risk. For example a rapid decline in the trust of believers (investors), a massive power outflow, like a war or a sharp change in lifestyle values. The risk profile of White Supremacy since the acquisition of more detailed personal data and control on the lives and deaths of people has made White Supremacist ideology very different from other political and religious systems.

The common risk profile associated with other religious and political systems that contributes to systematic risk is therefore apparently absent in the current global situation as regards White Supremacy but will change if support of the system of Institutional Racism by non-white people falls below critical mass.

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defyfear · (#2 (**permalink**))

Perhaps.

In order for it to occur if I am reading right, that satellite will have to be a giant magnet do dislodge it from its orbit. That would require much energy too.

ie electromagnetic

A missile will not make it change orbit.

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Lack of humidity and rain also helps preserve the specimens. Many meteorites contain iron, which deteriorates in wet climates.

Scientists often can tell the difference between a meteorite and an Earth rock, but it's not easy for the untrained eye. Meteorites have a crusty, burnt shell, the result of a journey through the Earth's blistering atmosphere. Those that contain metal are attracted to magnets.

Still a long shot though. I think the electromagnetic qualities of planets and solar systems give off a greater presence than a mere spacecraft.

Iron also have very unique structural properties.

Magnets influence its structure too.

Iron has different properties on earth than in space.

Just possessing a piece of it would open a wide range of possibilities....

defyfear · (#3 (**permalink**))

The source from where I quoted

Meteorites reveal secrets of Earth's history

They also have an egyptian theme OSIRUS.

For space missionary purposes.

I must say you have presented something very fascinating.

Thanks.

RESS · (#4 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by defyfear

Perhaps.

In order for it to occur if I am reading right, that satellite will have to be a giant magnet do dislodge it from its orbit. That would require much energy too.

ie electromagnetic

A missile will not make it change orbit.

Excellent.

Thanks for the introducing and contrasting electromagnetic force.

Great food for thought.

Black Lion · (#5 (**permalink**))

Intresting.... They've already had the, 'Appollo'.