Isn't the point that the coaxing can be dynamically controlled and thus allows for greater precision?
The 'keyhole' that they are talking about must actually be in phase-space (position-velocity coords, not just 'space'-space). The earth-collision trajectories and the accesible non-collision trajectories are probably close together in phase space. The initial collision is somewhat unpredictable so there's a risk of making things worse... plus secondary collision adjustments are going to be quite hard since the object has moved in an unpredictable way and the path that you picked a few years ago may be way off. Cleverly matching the asteroids post-collision trajectory seems like the most robust thing to do.
Those are just my quick guesses as to what's going on.
1. I have been looking for a way to define multiple bibtex keys for a single citation, as one might like to do in a multi-author document (each author may have their own key-naming conventions). I have not yet found a way to do this. Maybe I'm missing an easy solution here?
2. Also, adding url links to the bibliography (or any links to the document) takes a quite a bit of fiddling with formatting. Line breaks for links don't work very well. I've also found that choosing pdflatex or latex processing matters a lot in the way you do things (links for the hyperref package for example).
I love the structure that latex introduces in creating documents. The fact that the "Tex-monster" produces pretty (very pretty) output is almost secondary to me.
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Isn't the point that the coaxing can be dynamically controlled and thus allows for greater precision?
The 'keyhole' that they are talking about must actually be in phase-space (position-velocity coords, not just 'space'-space). The earth-collision trajectories and the accesible non-collision trajectories are probably close together in phase space. The initial collision is somewhat unpredictable so there's a risk of making things worse ... plus secondary collision adjustments are going to be quite hard since the object has moved in an unpredictable way and the path that you picked a few years ago may be way off. Cleverly matching the asteroids post-collision trajectory seems like the most robust thing to do.
Those are just my quick guesses as to what's going on.
1. I have been looking for a way to define multiple bibtex keys for a single citation, as one might like to do in a multi-author document (each author may have their own key-naming conventions). I have not yet found a way to do this. Maybe I'm missing an easy solution here?
2. Also, adding url links to the bibliography (or any links to the document) takes a quite a bit of fiddling with formatting. Line breaks for links don't work very well. I've also found that choosing pdflatex or latex processing matters a lot in the way you do things (links for the hyperref package for example).
I love the structure that latex introduces in creating documents. The fact that the "Tex-monster" produces pretty (very pretty) output is almost secondary to me.