... They rekon the body was actually (after further observation) 0.5km across, I would suspect that a body that size would vaporize a major city without too much effort!
As for not telling the populus, I have mixed feelings about that, as I said I don't know if there is much we could do (other than prepare an emergency plan) the thing to do is watch the stock market and see when Donald Rumsfeld buys construction shares... :) - then panic. Te he. Mark Ford -----Original Message----- From: stan . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 February 2004 17:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Scientists came within minutes of warning about asteroid impact.. We might not be able to do anything about the impact, as in preventing it, but surely there would be alot that could be done to lessen catestrophic damage. If the impact was known about 18 hours in adavnce, I'd be willing to bet that very shortly afterwards, with the resources of the entire world (instead of just 2 telescopes doing automated survays) behind the effort it wouldnt take long to find the region of the planet an impact was likely going to uccur in. After that it would be much like a hurricane warning, except with a bit less notice. a half a day before landfall of a major hurricane unpridicitibility of the path of a major storm oftentimes puts MANY millions of people on alert. people could evacuate, or prepair to shelter in place. emergancy services would be ramped up and ready to respond should the impact occur in a highly populated area, ect. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
