> What is important to acknowledge is that the Clementine probes main
> mission for BMDO was to prove that these sort of sensors could lock onto
> and guide a craft to near earth asteroids, which are millions of miles
> away. If they can do this, then finding a body reflecting solar flux in
> cislunar space is a piece of cake...
You're still missing, or ignoring, the point. THEY ALREADY KNEW WHERE THE
ASTEROID WAS! All the sensors had to do was scan a small volume of space
for a large object. Finding a small warhead in a much larger volume of
space is much, much harder.
Does anyone have the stats for Clementine's sensors handy? I can't really
look for them on the Web with a slow computer on a slow dialup link...
Mark
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