Re: Non-stealthy rockets

In article <479399f8$0$36337$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
James Gassaway <dtravel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few items/questions, if I may. First, are we assuming launch from within
the same solar system or are launches from a neighboring system to be taken
in to account?

Second, are comets/meteors considered "stealthy"? Because we're not even
sure we're going to know of all the near-Earth planet killers after a decade
long project specifically _to_ find them.

True but the effort to find potential Earth-impacters is
still relatively small and they don't come with convenient gigawatt
flares. C&C with how closely we keep an eye on space near Earth,
where objects in orbit as small as a bolt at tracked.




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