[meteorite-list] New Asteroid Threat Seen (Asteroid 2003 QQ47)

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:50 2004
Message-ID: <3F56239F.1070605_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, all,

well, I have my own opinions about the british astronomers. Not an
year ago they told, and asteroid will hit earth in next 10 years. At least
one TV-channell here was ignorant enough to publish this. Itīs not very
nice to try to explain to your 8-years, that itīs just a hoax. NASA made
a correction to aslo this next day.

Itīs sure, the press and the news (particulary british) will publish
everything,
if astro-somebody is willing to paint some global catastrophes. Think
this is
more serious problem than all hoaxes with meteorites and geo-somethings
from the local high schools. So NASA and also others have a lot to do...

So great work, Ron, thank you for that.

take care,

pekka



tracy latimer wrote:

>
> Thank you for the update, Ron. I REALLY want a
> banging-head-against-the-wall smiley for instances like this. An
> astronomer(s) find(s) a new asteroid that MAY have an orbit that is
> Earth-crossing. Immediately, the press runs amok with the data and
> screams "Doomsday!" before waiting for more information. Not to
> mention every nutbar who is 'talking with the aliens/spirits/God' and
> channeling their pet delusions. For the people who are actually
> searching for real asteroid threats, this sort of fearmongering is
> more dangerous than a potential impactor, because the public gets
> desensitized. At least MSN got it right with the Torino scale, but
> the rest was sensationalism.
>
> Tracy Latimer
>
>> From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Asteroid Threat Seen (Asteroid 2003
>> QQ47)
>> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:42:06 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> LINEAR obtained some new observations of the asteroid today, which
>> extends
>> the data arc from 6.7 days to 9 days. We've just computed a new orbit
>> solution, and
>> 2003 QQ47 has dropped to Torino 0. Also, the number of potential
>> impacts
>> have been reduced from 31 to 18, and the 2014 potential impact
>> has been eliminated.
>>
>> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk
>>
>> Ron Baalke
>>
>>
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