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

From: stan . <laser_maniac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:27 2004
Message-ID: <LAW10-F67SRl4o9SXCf000198f1_at_hotmail.com>

We might not be able to do anything about the impact, as in preventing it,
but surely there would be alot that could be done to lessen catestrophic
damage. If the impact was known about 18 hours in adavnce, I'd be willing to
bet that very shortly afterwards, with the resources of the entire world
(instead of just 2 telescopes doing automated survays) behind the effort it
wouldnt take long to find the region of the planet an impact was likely
going to uccur in.

After that it would be much like a hurricane warning, except with a bit less
notice. a half a day before landfall of a major hurricane unpridicitibility
of the path of a major storm oftentimes puts MANY millions of people on
alert. people could evacuate, or prepair to shelter in place. emergancy
services would be ramped up and ready to respond should the impact occur in
a highly populated area, ect.


>From: "mark ford" <markf_at_ssl.gb.com>
>To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Scientists came within minutes of warning
>about asteroid impact..
>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:11:39 -0000
>
>Dirk,
>
>Mind you, there probably isn't much point in telling the world, what
>would we do? We would have no idea of where is would hit until a few
>minutes before, so why panic anyway? Apart from stocking up on fur
>coats and food for the coming 'nuclear winter', not much else we could
>do!
>
>But hey - If I'm gonna go, I'd rather it be 'death-by-meteorite'
>
>Mark Ford
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: drtanuki [mailto:drtanuki_at_yahoo.com]
>Sent: 25 February 2004 12:52
>To: mark ford; meteorite-list
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists came within minutes of warning
>about asteroid impact..
>
>Dear Mark and list,
> Thank you for the posting. Don`t worry the next one or two will
>hit! And there will be not announcement until after the fact. Mass
>panic would not add to any survival. Best target NE-E USA or
>Canada....it is a cycle....why don`t the press put that information out?
>Because it would only cause more panic in an uncertain world? Best to
>you.
>Sincerely,
>Dirk Ross
>Yamaguchi University, Japan,
>Faculity of Science, Earth Sciences, Impact Researcher
>
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