Use rendered Trade Gothic type face (default)
Use fonts available on your system
Set font size to medium (default)
Set font size to large
Set font size to x-large
Set layout to "Jello" (min-width:770px \ max-width:1200px) (default) 
Set layout to "Fluid" (width: 100%)
Set layout to "Fixed" (width: 760px)
Place navigation on the right of the screen (default)
Place navigation on the left of the screenRadio 4’s weekly show In Our Time is an 45 interesting minutes on the elevation of asteroids from ‘vermin of the solar system’ to objects of useful scientific study.
Your Comments.
Your Reply
If you wish to trackback to this post please use the following trackback address: http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk/blog/2005/11/04/asteroids/trackback/
Spread the word.
Origami supports RSS (Real Simple Syndication), and Trackbacks from other blogs.
Sure they’re interesting - I’d take interest in anything capable of annihilating human civilization in a global catastrophe, wouldn’t you? As for learning about the formation of the universe, that’s very well and interesting, but I’m more interested in the immediate practicalities.
Unfortunately, the immediate practicality is that the prediction of orbital paths to a level of accuracy where impact with earth can be determined is more or less impossible (within 100,000km is just about achievable).
Notwithstanding that, there is little we could do about an impact anyway, bar hoping that Jupiter does its’ ‘trash-collector of the solar system’ thing and snags it instead.