Godlike Productions - Reply to Thread

Users Online Now: 1,340 (Who's On?)	Visitors Today: 260,305
Pageviews Today: 416,361	Threads Today: 155	Posts Today: 2,704
04:30 AM

REPLY TO THREAD

Subject Fact: Solar Flares Change Asteroid Trajectories. (for those who think I am trolling) Yarkovsky Effect

User Name

Font color: Font:

In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.

Original Message "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
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org]

Pictures (click to insert)





\| Next Page >>