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>Since the Tunguska event is thought to have been due to a 40 meter
>body, and such events were calculated to occur once every 2 to 3
>centuries, something is screwy here.

I've done some more thinking about this. Let's fudge the properties
of these objects so that they don't conflict with what we've already
seen:

Specifically, let's make them low density, so they don't hold together
well, or last long enough in the atmosphere to cause a big show.
Snow would be an ideal candidate.

Of course, if they were bare ice, they'd be bright, so let's give
them a coating of that gooey stuff that was on the rings of
Uranus and Neptune, to make them more reasonably dark.

Now they also absorb radar signals.

But this sounds too much like _that_ guy's theory, so it can't
be right...

>The orbits of the bodies are unexpectedly similar to Earth's.
>Two have orbits more like earth's than any known body; one was that
>asteroid that was mistaken for a spent rocket body.

>These couldn't be Frank's minicomets, could they?  His putative
>objects are supposedly in prograde, earth-like orbits, to reduce the
>impact velocity enough to avoid observational constraints.

Now that I think about it, Frank has (again going from memory) 
specified the orbital parameters of these hypothetical bodies pretty
closely...

These might be the _slower_ members of the population...

>	Paul F. Dietz
>	dietz@cs.rochester.edu

Disclaimer: I don't know; I'm just guessing.

Anyone here read _The Big Splash_?

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