My tea ceremony came to a spluttering halt this morning as the lenitivic voice of the BBC News reader announced the possible arrival of asteroid 2002 N17 on 1 February 2019.
I shan't be around by then I guess, but some younger FWers might be involved. The mile-wide lump of rock travelling at about 70,000 miles per hour is able to take out a continent or give everybody a big splash. It's been watched for some weeks past and although its trajectory is not yet precisely known it has now become the most threatening object in the short history of asteroid detection. If further observations confirm the likelihood of an impact then it might not be a bad thing at all. It might just possibly concentrate the minds of our politicians into thinking constructively about the planet as a whole. KH ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
