Meteorites

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Michael wrote:

>> and forget about the lasers that actually vaporize most meteors
>
> Hitting a 10cm meteorite in space from the surface? Even the U.S. can't
> fire lasers with such accuracy. They can't even laser down their own
> test
> missles lol
>

turns out you don't have to vaporize the laser. Just vaporize a bit of
the surface at the right spot and the jet of gasses produced will
change the meteors orbit.

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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