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Fact: Solar Flares Change Asteroid Trajectories. (for those who think I am trolling) Yarkovsky Effect
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 3153334:MV8xNjkxNjI0XzI3OTU4MDQyX0RDMEI4OEVE] Oh wow. I was wondering about this. Thanks, OP [/quote]
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"I just read an article about John Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy stating that we need a plan in case a NEO (near-Earth-object) gets in line to impact Earth.
In it he stated that gravitational or solar radiation perturbations can change the trajectory of an asteroid towards Earth. Since the Sun is going through a phase in which it will become more active, would it be possible for a relatively large solar flare to hit an asteroid with a ton of radiation and budge it on a course towards Earth? Assuming there will be an asteroid in the path of the radiation from a large solar flare."
Yarkovsky Effect
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