Posted: Jun 10, 2011 2:17 pm
I think I see. You have, by the way, in a most lucid way explained the mechanics of the sling shot effect 
which I thought I understood until I read what you wrote and realized that I never did.
However, as concerns the Earth/Melancholia flyby, I would take your reasoning to indicate that a far more likely senario than a head on collision would be a disturbance of Earth's orbit (no laughing matter in and of itself)?
which I thought I understood until I read what you wrote and realized that I never did.
However, as concerns the Earth/Melancholia flyby, I would take your reasoning to indicate that a far more likely senario than a head on collision would be a disturbance of Earth's orbit (no laughing matter in and of itself)?