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

)

It's still amazing what people in general think about this. A friend
last night said "So, what do you think about the meter"? "What?"
"The meter that's gonna blow up the world." "Meteorite! No, asteroid!
It's not going to!" Anyway, she seemed convinced that doomsday was
approaching in 2005. "2005? It was 2014!!!" People out there are
still thinking that this thing's going to hit!

I do blame the media (who else?); I remember last week, the Sky News
website had some sensationalist headline; I can't remember exactly
what it was, but qualitatively, it was along the lines of "Asteroid
smashes Earth in 2014", and only when you drilled into the story itself
did it admit that the probability was (estimated at) 1/909000 at the time.


Martin
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