----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin_L (Brin-L)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 7:31 AM Subject: another asteroid near miss
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1746000/1746330.stm > > Moving closer to the Sun, the asteroid is passing less than twice the > Moon's distance from us - just 370,000 miles away at 0737 GMT on 7 > January, which is close in cosmic terms. > I did a small back of the envelope calculation on this. There should be, roughly, 1 asteroid that hits the earth for every 10,000 that passes within 400,000 miles. Dan M.
