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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: averting doom
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:36:49 GMT
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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: averting doom
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:41:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.165411.25838@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas
- Clarke) writes:
- > In article <JMC.92Dec29211051@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John
- > McCarthy) writes:
- > > By the way, it seems to me that if the above idea is sound, it settles
- > > the question of the stability of the solar system - in the negative.
- > ... In the most recent Sci Am or Sky and Telescope
-
- It was Sky and Telescope Feb '93 ppp 13-14.
- I remembered wrong. A one millimeter perturbation of Mars' orbit
- eventually caused a 500,000 kilometer difference in the position of
- Pluto after 100 million years.
-
- Gerald Sussman and Jack Wisdom used the Supercomputer Toolkit at MIT
- to simulate the solar system.
-
- >Hey, maybe Pluto would be better than Ceres. Kick a periodic comet
- >so it ricochets of Pluto. Pluto Ricochets off Neptune, then off Jupiter
- >and into the inner solar system where it becomes tame!
-
- A further thought: sprinkle carbon black on the right part of the
- comet and its natural outgassing will be modified. Done properely
- in an orbit or two the comet will ricochet of Jupiter then into
- Pluto and away we go.
- This is a mission we could fly now!! A few hundred pounds of carbon
- black in a comet fly by! I wonder is the MIT computer is up to
- predicting comet outgassing :-)
-
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
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