At 11:09 PM 6/20/2002 +0100, Ian Woollard wrote:
>A football field sized (appropriately enough during the world cup)
>asteroid just missed
>us by just 120,000 km.
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2056000/2056403.stm
>
>Tunguska sized... came from the Sun direction (i.e. invisible), 14 June-
>spotted
>days later.
>
>Within that distance we're talking perhaps a 1% chance of collision.
>
>Gulp.
Yup ... about every 8-10 months we see one AFTER it's gone by, but of
late we've been seeing them every 2 months or so. Kinda makes you
nervous, eh?
Michael
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