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From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: another asteroid near miss


> My idea is probably completely wrong...but wouldn't the number be
> 999,999:1? The ratio of the 400k sphere's volume to the earth's volume,
> 100^3-1 : 1
>
No, that would be the ratio of the number of neutrions within the earth to
the number of neutrino's within 400k miles of the center of the earth.
(Most neutrino's have a >99.9% chance of passing through the earth.)

Dan M.

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