[meteorite-list] Scientists came within minutes of warning about asteroid impact..

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:27 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B311A338B_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Astronomers have revealed how they came within minutes of alerting the
world to a potential asteroid strike last month.=20

Some scientists believed on 13 January that a 30m object, later
designated 2004 AS1, had a one-in-four chance of hitting the planet
within 36 hours.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3517319.stm



Mark Ford
Received on Wed 25 Feb 2004 04:04:12 AM PST