[meteorite-list] Re: Human bottleneck around 70,000 years ago and Mars god of war.

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:36 2004
Message-ID: <200306111952.MAA20965_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> [Editor's Note: The initial computations that brought this event to light were made by Jean Meeus of Belgium. The above distances, only very slightly refined, were supplied to SPACE.com on Dec. 13, 2002 by orbit expert Myles Standish at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The "nearly 60,000 years" estimate was originally 73,000 years and was updated on May 1, 2003 as new calculations were supplied.]
 
Myles Standish's primary job is to maintain high-precision masses and positions of the
planets in our solar system, which are then used for navigation for present and future
planetary missions. Myles sits right near my office, and he is the source for most
of my numbers for the upcoming Mars opposition.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 11 Jun 2003 03:52:11 PM PDT