>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/06/20/asteroid.miss/index.html
>
>Just another close call after the fact story. Not really
>earth-shattering... "the size of a football field" (what is the depth >of
a
>football field and are we talking American or the rest of the world
>football?). It came within 120,000 km (75,000 miles) of earth and
>first spotted some days afterward. They estimate a collision might >>have
>been similar to what happened in 1908 over Siberia (Tunguska sp?).
>I wonder... if it had hit around the Indian-Pakistani border...
>Sean
Gee, there went a billion people.
Probably would have been the first time in recorded history that an asteriod
triggered a regional thermo nuclear war :o|
M. Malmkvist
