[meteorite-list] Asteroid Scare
From: MrX3010_at_aol.com <MrX3010_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:34 2004 Message-ID: <fd.19a76fb5.2a455cf4_at_aol.com> --part1_fd.19a76fb5.2a455cf4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings I'm just another citizen who loves meteorites, only have a small Odessa but one day I'll find another. My post about the asteroid impact was just an observation that I've noticed since more and more "near misses" have been reported in the media. I too find it a bit disturbing when media outlets sensationalize such events, but as I said it's better to be safe than sorry and really in today's world I don't think an asteroid scare matters much to most common people. They need sensational artistic interpreted animations of giant fireballs destroying cities in order to fully understand the seriousness of the issue. That's why I say we need more education out there about asteroids and comets. Granted we should be careful about crying wolf one to many times but that wasn't the case this time. This thing was found three days after closest approach? Who knew? Hopefully we all will the next time it happens preferably before it happens. Thanks all, Ron --part1_fd.19a76fb5.2a455cf4_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2>Greetings I'm just another citizen who loves meteorites, only have a small Odessa but one day I'll find another. My post about the asteroid impact was just an observation that I've noticed since more and more "near misses" have been reported in the media. I too find it a bit disturbing when media outlets sensationalize such events, but as I said it's better to be safe than sorry and really in today's world I don't think an asteroid scare matters much to most common people. They need sensational artistic interpreted animations of giant fireballs destroying cities in order to fully understand the seriousness of the issue. That's why I say we need more education out there about asteroids and comets. Granted we should be careful about crying wolf one to many times but that wasn't the case this time. This thing was found three days after closest approach? Who knew? Hop efully we all will the next time it happens preferably before it happens.<BR> <BR> Thanks all,<BR> <BR> Ron</FONT></HTML> --part1_fd.19a76fb5.2a455cf4_boundary-- Received on Sat 22 Jun 2002 12:54:12 AM PDT |
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