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

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:28 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B3101446B_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

... They rekon the body was actually (after further observation) 0.5km
across, I would suspect that a body that size would vaporize a major
city without too much effort!=20

As for not telling the populus, I have mixed feelings about that, as I
said I don't know if there is much we could do (other than prepare an
emergency plan) the thing to do is watch the stock market and see when
Donald Rumsfeld buys construction shares... :) - then panic.

Te he.

Mark Ford


-----Original Message-----
From: stan . [mailto:laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com]=20
Sent: 25 February 2004 17:06
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Scientists came within minutes of warning
about asteroid impact..

We might not be able to do anything about the impact, as in preventing
it,=20
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=20
bet that very shortly afterwards, with the resources of the entire world

(instead of just 2 telescopes doing automated survays) behind the effort
it=20
wouldnt take long to find the region of the planet an impact was likely=20
going to uccur in.

After that it would be much like a hurricane warning, except with a bit
less=20
notice. a half a day before landfall of a major hurricane
unpridicitibility=20
of the path of a major storm oftentimes puts MANY millions of people on=20
alert. people could evacuate, or prepair to shelter in place. emergancy=20
services would be ramped up and ready to respond should the impact occur
in=20
a highly populated area, ect.
Received on Thu 26 Feb 2004 03:31:46 AM PST