On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:13, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >moon in that case), if it doesn't make it, it rains down on our
> > heads, and we suffer now rather than leaving it to our descendents.
>
> You are wrong about that imho. A slight miss on an object on a Hohman
> (sp?) orbit with apohelion at earth orbit level and perihelion above
> the sun (that's the miss) would have maximum probability to impact
> with earth, but it may take 1000 years to do so.

Good point.

I withdraw any support I have for space disposal until such time (if
ever) that space travel advances to the point that we can reliably
monitor that we get the orbit right, and do something about fixing it
(possibly at huge cost - we'd need to intercept the thing) if we get it
wrong.

Cheers,
Roy Ward.

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