[meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids
From: MeteorHntr_at_aol.com <MeteorHntr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:46 2004 Message-ID: <39.20e0d7cb.29749ec2_at_aol.com> --part1_39.20e0d7cb.29749ec2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/14/02 2:24:34 PM Central Standard Time, jim_at_catchafallingstar.com writes: > > Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage. > Jim, Thanks for the link. Not to sound too skeptical, but the source (D. Morrison, 1992) quoted for the chart states that odds of someone dying int he US by car accident is 1:100 and by an asteroid or commet at 1:20,000. Does that mean for every 200 people that are killed by automobile accedents we have 1 person killed by a comet or Asteroid? Or are they basing the adverage US lifespan to be ~70 years. And if a big one would hit, it would kill us all off, so one lifespan out of every 20,000 lifespans will get a "big one"? If so, then then 70 x 20,000 would be a big one hitting every 1,400,000 years. That seems a little low if they want to scare us into giving more money to find these killers? Steve Arnold --part1_39.20e0d7cb.29749ec2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/14/02 2:24:34 PM Central Standard Time, jim_at_catchafallingstar.com writes: <BR> <BR> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BR>Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> <BR>Jim, <BR> <BR>Thanks for the link. Not to sound too skeptical, but the source (D. Morrison, 1992) quoted for the chart states that odds of someone dying int he US by car accident is 1:100 and by an asteroid or commet at 1:20,000. <BR> <BR>Does that mean for every 200 people that are killed by automobile accedents we have 1 person killed by a comet or Asteroid? <BR> <BR>Or are they basing the adverage US lifespan to be ~70 years. And if a big one would hit, it would kill us all off, so one lifespan out of every 20,000 lifespans will get a "big one"? If so, then then 70 x 20,000 would be a big one hitting every 1,400,000 years. <BR> <BR>That seems a little low if they want to scare us into giving more money to find these killers? <BR> <BR>Steve Arnold</FONT></HTML> --part1_39.20e0d7cb.29749ec2_boundary-- Received on Mon 14 Jan 2002 03:51:14 PM PST |
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