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

From: stan . <laser_maniac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:28 2004
Message-ID: <Law10-F76tAdRu9eDwc0001b556_at_hotmail.com>

the bottom falling out of the market?

what are you talking about??!??!

if a relativly ordinary chonderite will fetch several tens of dollars per
gram just because it fell on suburbia outside of chicago, think of what kind
of hype there would be if the rock was 'THE BIGGEST METEORITE EVER!' or
'DESTROYED THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES!' (instead of just busting a few rafters
in someone's house) or 'FIRST RECOVERED PIECES OF A COMET TO HIT THE
EARTH!'.. hell, if it came from a comet, who knows what kind of boulders of
C1 material would land..

such an impact would cause untold billions in damage, but the stuff the made
it to the ground would be worth bazillions of dolladrs, easily...





>From: Howard Wu <freewu2000_at_yahoo.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 17:17:34 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Early warning would definitely be helpful so we could sell off our
>collections before the bottom falls out the meteorite market!
>
>Howard
>
>"stan ." <laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>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"
> >To:
> >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
> >
> >The time window for this stream ends at about 2008.
> > _____
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