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Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028


guys (and especially victor who, on some level, will be pleased) -

please note the manipulation that's occurring here. it is not a coincidence
that the "watch out below" story broke and that two feature films will
imminently be released whose premise is "watch out below."

similarly, it's not a coincidence that the day it was announced that
ALH84001 was contaminated--the VERY same day--nasa announced "officially"
that john glenn was going back into space. glenn's trip, long rumored,
became page one, and the ALH story was buried.  this was nothing other than
an intelligent manipulation of the media by nasa to further its agenda.

please note that i am not a conspiracy theorist...i work in this
environment and i understand it.  sometimes it makes me laugh...and
sometimes it makes me upset...but it always leaves me feeling somewhat sad.
i leave you with one thought: we will all have more successful lives if we
come to understand the meaning of what constitutes some of the "news" which
enters our lives.

best-
darryl

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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        March 12, 1998
>
>ASTEROID WILL MISS EARTH BY "COMFORTABLE DISTANCE" IN 2028
>
>       Asteroid 1997 XF11 will pass well beyond the Moon's distance from
>Earth in October 2028 with a zero probability of impacting the planet,
>according to astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
>
>       The asteroid "is predicted to pass at a rather comforable distance of
>about 600,000 miles (about 960,000 kilometers) in 2028," reported Dr. Donald
>K. Yeomans and Dr. Paul W. Chodas, JPL scientists who specialize in
>computing the predicted orbits of comets, asteroids, planets and other
>bodies in the solar system.
>
>       Data on the asteroid from March 1990 (well before its discovery in
>December 1997) was integrated into the orbit calculations by Yeomans and
>Chodas to arrive at the distance the asteroid will pass Earth. The 1990
>observations of the object were found today in the Palomar Planet Crossing
>Asteroid Survey conducted at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, by JPL's Eleanor
>Helin and Ken Lawrence and by Brian Roman, formerly of JPL.
>
>       Even prior to the discovery of the earlier Palomar observations,
>however, Yeomans and Chodas had determined that the impact probability would
>be zero. The new calculations further underscore that conclusion, they said.
>
>       JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
>
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