TOUTATIS and earths gravity

[bmpbmp]

Since the asteroid will be so close is it possible it gets pulled in by earths gravity

[Eta C]

No.

[ToSeek]

It will get affected by Earth's gravity, of course, but that's already accounted for in the predicted trajectory.

[mopc]

Wasn't "pour toutatis" what Asterix used to exclaim when surprised?

[freddo]

Remain calm.

[BAroxMysox]

No! Don't remain calm. We're gonna die.

I have all the info in my book, which you can purchase for $39.99

:P

If you want some really good info on this though, Toutatis (the BABB poster) has posted quite alot of it in the Planet X forum.

[Brady Yoon]

Yeah, it's gonna be a mass extinction. :wink:

[Dgennero]

I also thought for a long time that "capturing" an asteroid is something very common, but indeed it seems difficult, especially when the relative speeds are so high.
Toutatis will be slightly influenced, and the altered orbit might even mean we'll never see it again. Seems it cannot be just "pulled in", because the trajectory remains a hyperbolical one, no closed orbit.

[Argos]

Toutatis fly-by will occur when the asteroid is almost at the perihelion. Itīll be moving very fast.

[ToSeek]

I also thought for a long time that "capturing" an asteroid is something very common, but indeed it seems difficult, especially when the relative speeds are so high.

If you just consider the two bodies, I don't think it's possible for capture to occur. Toutatis will leave the vicinity of Earth at about the same relative velocity it arrived. For capture, you need to have a third body complicating things.

[Toutatis]

Succinctly NO capture is possible under the prevailing conditions...


That said Toutatis' very low Earth-relative velocity ~ 11km/s ~ Earth escape velocity, makes for (i.e. facilitates) interesting (future) possibilities :-)

Ever heard of a 'Swan Ship'? --- Perhaps, one day, our descendants will employ Toutatis as a 'Duck Ship'! A S-L-O-W boat to the Jovian System

MAYBE our early ancestors did!!! --- Fantastic? Of course! But then those resonances are mighty convenient!!!??? --- Mind you certain ancient works (e.g. the great pyramid) required techniques beyond our present capabilities... To say *NOTHING* of the alleged "Bimini Stone" (Those learned in the ways of electronics will appreciate the latter --- which being a piezo resonator having a fundamental frequency ~ 11.6 uHz --- Uh Huh! MicroHertz!!! )

Again, there is no proof of the Bimini Stone's existence. --- The point of my lill' digression being: For the founders of ancient wonders it may behoove us to look *NOT* to extraterrestrials BUT, RATHER, TO OURSELVES!!! I've an 'achy' feeling, that, on several occasions, we've attained unimagined heights only to unceremoniously precipitate ourselves right back to 'square one' --- For while we are, so it seems, the sole species cognizant of a future -- We, as a group, steadfastly refuse to learn from the past :,(

Sincerely
Dan Sarandon

[Avatar28]

Oh, you mean kinda like the Ancients on Stargate. :-) Wouldn't surprise me to be honest, but you'd think they'd have left more evidence of themselves behind. Somehow I feel pretty sure that some thousands of years from now there would still be ample evidence of our existence.

[Charlie in Dayton]

Like the man said...


Remain clam.


:-k