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Old February 24th 04, 06:22 PM
Paul Neave
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Default Earth almost put on impact alert

"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.


 




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