2006 TC1 Earth Impact Risk Summary based on 21 observations spanning .98657 days
(2006-Oct-03.31668 to 2006-Oct-04.30325)

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

I'm glad it is going to miss us. It is almost half a mile across.
At some point we may be regarding this, and the other Earth-crossing asteroids as low-hanging fruit for cheap resources in space.

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Stop right there. Think for a moment about the quality of an orbit computed from an arc less than one day in length.

Hum,
indeed, i included that information to put into perspective the numbers,
and it is one reason why the NEO risk table places only 7th on the list.
But, i left out the 107 possible future impact scenarios that are computed from that orbit (that number and size of the asteroid was one of the reasons why i posted the, er, post)

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

I wonder what it would take to capture it in orbit.

Hum,
at an estimated diameter of 0.645 kilometres there is no currently viable way of stopping it.

(er, apart from the Earth).

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Or perhaps the Moon if we got lucky.

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