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

Thu Dec 31 13:16:29 EST 2009

At NBC we're trying to keep it real. Please critique our coverage.

Spaceflight only. I don't deal in other areas of their news coverage.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Portree 
  To: agzak at optonline.net ; fpspace at friends-partners.org 
  Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Now the Russian asteroid mission is a "secret plan"

  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. 

  David S. F. Portree

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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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