Keith, Here are the URLS for that story.
REH *Space rock 'on collision course'* <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm> *Could an asteroid be deflected?* <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/2148924.stm> No-one has ever done it before but it might be possible to deflect an asteroid on collision course with Earth if there were enough warning. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Asteroid N17 > Keith, here is a fun website to go along with your announcement. > http://www.citiesoflight.net/earthdyn.html > > REH > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:41 AM > Subject: Asteroid N17 > > > > 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] > > ________________________________________________________________________ >
