[FPSPACE] Now the Russian asteroid mission is a "secret plan"

[David Portree]

Can't win with the stupid reporters - they are so eager for sensational stories that they'll manufacture them. Then it all goes viral on the Internet. 

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> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:20:39 +0000
> From: agzak at optonline.net
> To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Now the Russian asteroid mission is a "secret plan"
> 
> Good practice for Russia would be to launch anything beyond Earth orbit in the next decade, before making stupid statements to even more stupid reporters :)
> 
> Anatoly Zak
> http://www.russianspaceweb.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:32 pm
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Now the Russian asteroid mission is a "secret plan"
> To: Peter Pesavento <pjp961 at svol.net>, "fpspace at friends-partners.org " <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> 
> > I thought astronomer had determined that this particular space rock 
> > would not hit our planet any time soon after all?
> > 
> > A deflection mission would be good practice though. 
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Pesavento <pjp961 at svol.net>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:42:10 
> > To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> > Subject: [FPSPACE] Now the Russian asteroid mission is a "secret plan"
> > 
> > Here's the latest article 
> >   
> > http://rawstory.com/2009/12/russia-secret-plan-save-earth-asteroid-
> > official/ <http://rawstory.com/2009/12/russia-secret-plan-save-
> > earth-asteroid-official/> 
> >   
> > Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official 
> > By Ron Brynaert <http://rawstory.com/2009/author/ronbrynaert/> 
> > Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 -- 10:25 am 
> >   
> > MOSCOW - Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a 
> > plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a 
> > giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said 
> > Wednesday. 
> > "We will soon hold a closed meeting of our collegium, the science-
> > technical council to look at what can be done" to prevent the 
> > asteroid Apophis from slamming into the planet in 2036, Anatoly 
> > Perminov told Voice of Russia radio. 
> > "We are talking about people's lives," Perminov was quoted by news 
> > agencies as telling the radio station. 
> > "Better to spend a few hundred million dollars to create a system 
> > for preventing a collision than to wait until it happens and 
> > hundreds of thousands of people are killed," he said. 
> > The Apophis asteroid measures approximately 350 metres (1,150 feet) 
> > in diameter and RIA Novosti news agency said that if it were to hit 
> > Earth when it passes nearby in 2036 it would create a new desert 
> > the size of France. 
> > Perminov said a serious plan to prevent such a catastrophe would 
> > probably be an international project involving Russian, European, 
> > US and Chinese space experts. 
> > Interfax quoted him as saying that one option would be to build a 
> > new "space apparatus" designed solely for the purpose of diverting 
> > Apophis from a collision course with Earth safely. 
> > "There won't be any nuclear explosions," Perminov said. "Everything 
> > will be done according to the laws of physics. We will examine all 
> > of this." 
> > In a statement dated from October and posted on its website, the US 
> > space agency NASA said new calculations on the path of Apophis 
> > indicated "a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous 
> > encounter with Earth in 2036." 
> > "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate 
> > the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for 
> > Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a-million," 
> > NASA said. 
> > RIA Novosti said the asteroid was expected to pass within 30,000 
> > kilometres (18,600 miles) of Earth in 2029 -- closer than some geo-
> > stationary satellites -- and could shift course to hit Earth seven 
> > years years after that. 
> >  
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