Timeline for Help with equations for deflecting an asteroid
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 14:56 | vote | accept | Jeffery Baugh | ||
| Sep 28, 2014 at 22:43 | comment | added | Jeffery Baugh | Ah that actually helps a lot. I was viewing r and D two separate values. Thanks again. I will be finishing this program up tomorrow and I will let you know if I get stuck. I think I can calculate the impulse as it was in my physics book. | |
| Sep 28, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | Floris | If you know the impulse you can deliver, the angular momentum equation will tell you how far away you need to be. I cannot write it out on my phone - May get near a computer in a few hours if you are still stuck. Note my $r$ is your $D$ | |
| Sep 28, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | Jeffery Baugh | Ok can you help me with one more thing, and maybe I am missing this, but how do I calculate the minimum distance (D) that missile collision needs to take place to miss us at the 3R distance? | |
| Sep 28, 2014 at 18:14 | comment | added | Jeffery Baugh | Thank you for your comment. It looks like this may help me some but I don't know. I added a diagram and input/outputs of my program to help illustrate the problem to be programmed. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 18:56 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |