Originally Posted by fjm1
Xena the sneaky little biotch has made your theorum obsolete. She's way out there most of the time.
Now, back to the matter of a fairly large chunk of space crap going undetected. Doesn't this make anyone wonder if a movie like Armageddon could happen? Apparently we have a hard time detecting stuff in our own solar system.
That's not a theory. Planet and non-planet orbits are on a very predictable orbit. Considering how far this planet is, the reason why we didn't see it is because it is so far away and reflecting veyr little light.
But when it comes to asteroids, there is the possibility one could hit us and we never saw it coming, depending on where it is coming from. Well, we'd see it, but not long before it smacked into our planet. There have been a few cases where an asteroid has whizzed by us and we never knew it was there until too late.