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Originally posted by Iiquiringmind
This is just my devil's advocate side talking here. But to borrow an example from the movie ( forget which one now), ...wouldn't the breaking apart of this comet cause for it then rain its multiple pieces down on earth? Instead of one big comet, we now have several... are they not headed in the same direction?
Smaller pieces would individually be more strongly influenced by Earth's gravity, if is was in fact that close.
I'm not ready to dismiss it altough its comforting to know people seem appeased by this news.
Originally posted by David291
I didn't know comet elenin was that close to the sun to be honest
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Smaller pieces would individually be more strongly influenced by Earth's gravity, if is was in fact that close.
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by deadeyedick
reply to post by Phage
www.thefreedictionary.com...
Nope satellites are not falling through space.Some may fall back to earth but saying that they can fall through space is not a good way to help us understand.The link you gave doesn't prove that objects are falling through space.I do get what your trying to say i think.The way i see it would depend on the mass of the object vs the force that broke it apart.
Objects in orbit ARE always falling toward the object they are orbiting.
Elenin is falling toward the Sun. The Moon is falling toward the Earth. The Earth is falling toward the Sun. That's exactly what an orbit is -- falling due to the influence of gravity.
The example I gave before is the Space Station that is falling toward the Earth. The Earth's gravity is pulling down the space station in the same manner that it pulls a thrown rock back to Earth.
Check out my post above (or click Here to link to my post) for additional information.
edit on 8/30/2011 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Originally posted by whiteblack
I say thank you to God for breaking this elenin comet before heading to the earth. Praise to God! I guess someone prayed that the comet would break apart...it did...
I, for one, do not want to see Elenin comet go anywhere near to the earth. That another comet called 2005 YU55, too.edit on 29-8-2011 by whiteblack because: (no reason given)
Thankfully Yu 55 is only about 400 meters across and a known object. At worst, someone could have made a mistake and it would make a little puff of dust as it hit the moon. That might actually be entertaining to see, come to think of it. It's no threat to Earth by any reasoning though, unless you happened to be directly under it, and that would still require quite a miscalculation to see happen. Nothing to see there, quite literally, since it's an asteroid.
Above: The location of the Tunguska impact.
"A century later some still debate the cause and come up with different scenarios that could have caused the explosion," said Yeomans. "But the generally agreed upon theory is that on the morning of June 30, 1908, a large space rock, about 120 feet across, entered the atmosphere of Siberia and then detonated in the sky."
It is estimated the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere traveling at a speed of about 33,500 miles per hour. During its quick plunge, the 220-million-pound space rock heated the air surrounding it to 44,500 degrees Fahrenheit. At 7:17 a.m. (local Siberia time), at a height of about 28,000 feet, the combination of pressure and heat caused the asteroid to fragment and annihilate itself, producing a fireball and releasing energy equivalent to about 185 Hiroshima bombs.
"That is why there is no impact crater," said Yeomans. "The great majority of the asteroid is consumed in the explosion."
Yeomans and his colleagues at JPL's Near-Earth Object Office are tasked with plotting the orbits of present-day comets and asteroids that cross Earth's path, and could be potentially hazardous to our planet. Yeomans estimates that, on average, a Tunguska-sized asteroid will enter Earth's atmosphere once every 300 years.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by deadeyedick
What about a geosynchronous orbit?
It's just an orbit at an altitude which provides an orbital velocity which matches the Earth's rotation at the equator. It's still falling around the Earth.