Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-15 Thread E.P. Grondine
Somebody needs to tell Clark Chapman that an asteroid or comet impacted at Rio Cuarto, and that this was just one of a number of fatal impacts which occured within recorded human history. My old list of fatal impacts may be found in the meteorite list archives, and some additions to this list

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread Jim Strope
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Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread Jim Strope
] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage. http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/ If the odds of dying of an asteroid

RE: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread Rhett Bourland
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Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread Ron Baalke
If the odds of dying of an asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, wouldn't that mean that 12,500 people (out of the USA's 250,000,000) figure to die that way? There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it? There is nothing wrong with it, but you have to be aware you're

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread David Freeman
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Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread Sharkkb8
As stated in the article, the odds are 1 in 20,000. But the odds of any one person being killed by a comet are astronomically different (no pun intended) than the odds of a comet striking the Earth within the next million years. Depends on exactly what event is being considered. Gregory

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

2002-01-14 Thread George N.
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