Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton is being urged to do more to study asteroids. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants the president to reverse his veto of $25 million for an asteroid interceptor. Rohrabacher says the program would have involved firing tiny intercepts into asteroids to provide scientists with information and test new technologies. Rohrabacher says the project would have been a low-cost ``proof of concept'' for any future attempt to protect earth from an asteroid collision. Scientists this week first estimated a mile-long asteroid might come within 30,000 miles of Earth in 30 years. They later amended their calculations to say it would only come within 600,000 miles of Earth. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
