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#1 2004-02-24 12:28:34
- Bill White
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Re: Asteroid alert - A near miss?
[=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3517319.stm]This BBC article is interesting. . .
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#2 2004-02-24 12:31:37
- clark
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Re: Asteroid alert - A near miss?
Didn't predict that. 
I like our time line better.
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#3 2004-02-24 14:15:24
- Palomar
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Re: Asteroid alert - A near miss?
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3517319.stm]This BBC article is interesting. . .
*Spaceweather.com keeps tabs on Potentially Hazardous Asteroids on a daily basis.
Includes charts, etc.
"Interesting"...right, Bill...VERY "interesting." 
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#4 2004-02-24 14:26:10
- Palomar
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Re: Asteroid alert - A near miss?
*By the way...
...how long would it have likely taken them to figure out WHERE PRECISELY it would have hit, if on genuine impact course??
Thank god there are large, large oceans on this planet!!
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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