"Orion" wrote in message
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The again, the down side is Earth suffers an impact, with no warning
given,
because they could'nt make the analysis in time to say
"We are 100% certain of impact" I wonder were the % line of public
notification is?
Orion

"Paul Neave" wrote in message
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"Astronomers have revealed how they came within minutes of alerting
the world to a potential asteroid strike last month.

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

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

Scary.


To be honest does it matter? At such short notice it is unlikely that any
real effective evacuation could be done and you could argue that causing a
panic could simply make things worse.

Martin