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Mark Eby — (archived)

(9) GRONDINE'S MISREPRESENTATIONS by Duncan Steel

Some key quotes akin to what most here feel about EP

"That is not the case at all and it takes some weird jump in imagination to
derive such a false belief. It is akin to suggesting that because a bicycle
becomes available for me to pedal to work then it follows that I will give
up saving to buy a new car."

"Similarly Grondine's analysis of my comments on the Associated Press report
is entirely incorrect. The AP report was misleading because it made it
appear that the "NASA Spaceguard goal" is 90 percent of all 1 km plus NEOs
(i.e., including Earth-crossing comets), whereas the goal is recognised by
all those with close familiarity with the subject to involve only the NEAs.
And at that, only the NEAs with short-period orbits (because it is beyond us
to discover those 1 km asteroids with perihelion distances less that 1 AU
but aphelia beyond Neptune until such time as they enter the inner solar
system; ipso facto such long-period asteroids are not part of the population
of which 90 percent is the aim)."

"As I wrote, it is not feasible to find any substantial fraction of the total
numerical population because one cannot spot comets at 10,000 AU no matter
how much you spend on telescopes, and no-one with half an ounce of
intelligence has suggested that you can. As I wrote, there are 100 million
comets per square degree that are not discernable as individual objects.
Spotting the few that enter the inner planetary region each year is easy, in
most cases."

You're nothing here but comic relief EP. All the others who continually make as big a fools of themselves as you except BD at least acknowlege their rudimentary knowledge and at least Barry sites well known if oddball scientists or quotes real experts out of context. At least you've learned from the rest of us to focus on long period comets being a real long term threat to humanity as opposed to your fixation on small impactors. However, as usual you are clueless about how to seriously attack the problem.

been fun, I'm sure we'll do it again,
Mark

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