[AR] Re: Leo collisions...

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:03:07 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Paul Breed wrote:

The potential large collision in about 4.5 hours.Has gone from 12m+/-18 to 
to 25m +/-18  miss distance in 24hrs.
What is the possibility that some clandestine state actor is using laser ablation or some other mostly secret tech to change the orbit to prevent the calamity?

I suppose it cannot be completely ruled out, but the upper atmosphere is so variable and so hard to predict precisely that such a hypothesis seems unnecessary.

Henry

P.S. It missed.

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