algomeysa2 wrote:

"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
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http://www.lowell.edu/press_room/rel...ermes_rls.html


For more information on the discovery and images of Hermes, visit the

LONEOS

website at http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos.html.


Interesting page, but, you know, when I go to a webpage and the first thing
I see is this:

"The risk you face of dying as a result of an asteroid impact is about 1 in
20,000, the same risk you face of dying in a plane crash. - Source:
Spaceguard Survey"

The fact that that's obviously a completely bogus statistic.....considering,
oh...... I can search the web and find many people who have died in plane
crashes, but, there's not one instance in recorded history of anyone dying
in an asteroid impact...... makes that rather suspect....

Its "a priori" vs. "a postiori" statistics ... all statistics are
"bogus" if you do not understand the basis.