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Old September 6th 03, 11:21 PM
Gareth V. Williams
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Stephen Tonkin wrote:
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3200019.stm

: The NEO information centre is putting it as 1 on the Torino scale.

Minor quibble. The Torino scale values for any Virtual Impactor come
from either the JPL or University of Pisa risk pages. The NEOIC doesn't
do these calculations.


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