NationStates Jolt Archive


Large Asteroid?

15-10-2003, 13:53
DSS VĂ naith- The VĂ naith's orbital telescope made its routine rounds of snapping photographs billions of miles away in the hope of finding new minerals for mining and other purposes. The telescope was fitted with an instrument built for tracking certain minerals that could be of some uses in Dragonia. The BMTU, as its called is linked to a computer inside the shuttle.

-------BTMU RDOUT----------
CHK1:21W,64E
MIN: 574,691 FOUND
SRCE:UNSTBLE
DISTANCE:UNTBLE
MASS:10E576-UNSTABLE
END----------------------------

"Commander Mikel, BTMU has found something but I'm not sure what to make of it."

"What mineral has it found?"

"Uranium, Iron, and an unspecified, sir."

"Whats UNSTBLE mean?"

"Sir, thats the way BTMU tells us that the object is not in....well,"

"What?"

"The object is moving, towards the planet at an alarming rate. Its disintegrating and not keeping a steady mass, but the object is 1/8 the size of the planet."

"Dear God.....Send a signal back home and to any available manned space vehicle in the area. We have a global disaster on are hands. When's the next time we can get a closer look at it?"

"Later today sir."

"Step on it, and get that message out."