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Re: (meteorobs) and mir ? Re: Leonids meteor shower
vladimir lukic wrote:
> > Someone is worried enough because they are turning the Hubble around and
> > away from the incoming shower of particles to avoid damage. Interesting
> > and the kind of statement that sell news papers.
>
> Last week I gave one HST-related optics problem to my students, and one
> guy who had hard times solving it made a joke that problem is useless, as
> 'HST is going to be destroyed soon, anyway'. At that moment I realized
> that more than half of the students 'knew' that HST will 'definitely be
> damaged' in November, and some of them were smart enough to generalize
> this to ALL weather, communication etc. satellites!!!
>
> I had REAL problem explaining them (what I believe is) the real situation.
> Some of them were almost disappointed... ;)
>
> However, nobody was really scared by possibility of major impact with
> Earth (at least not by this occasion :) ).
>
> Vladimir
Vladimir: you have to consider the poor astronauts into the mir !!!It's a real
danger for them, I believe.
ciao
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