Gareth V. Williams wrote:
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.

I don't think I said that the NEOIC had *assigned* it a classification.
However, let me rephrase it: "The NEO information centre is putting out
the information that it is classified as 1 on the Torino scale." Better?

(And now, of course, they are putting out the information that it is
classified as 0 on the Torino scale."

Best,
Stephen

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