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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Early Warning of missiles and meteors
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- > they could detect it; if their systems were looking. the military
- > is rather sensitive about how sensitive their equipment is. they
- >
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- I would tend to agree. However, from your description, I could
- suggest a scenario by which it could slip through.
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- a) As you say, on a hyperbolic orbit it would not be
- detectable until it got fairly close .
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- b) The entry point may have been over the continental US and
- heading OUT into the ocean, thus it would not have been in
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- the coastal watch until very late and may have
- been there for such a short time as to be missed entirely.
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- Or, as you said, they seen it and the ain't talkin'....
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