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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (25185)7/10/2003 2:09:20 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Re: (wait, couldn't it just do a 90 degree turn the other way and make it a little less impossible?...nevermind, what was I thinking...)

Actually, it couldn't. Please recall that the craft apparently had about a 35 degree angle of attack on the building. The approach you suggest wouldn't match the trajectory of whatever penetrated the three outer rings.