From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 11:07:33 MDT
On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 03:30 am, Amara Graps wrote:
> Duncan
> Steel last month at the Asteroid Comets and Meteors meeting proposed
> a press announcement which he wanted to call the "Berlin
> Declaration", that stated, among many items, that no organized
> telescope searches exist for such a task, as say many media reports.
Yes, public knowledge is often just plain wrong to the point that
everyone just merely repeats what everyone else "knows".
> http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/07/asteroid.threat.ap/index.html
> Asteroid threat to Earth remote, but real
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) --A space rock big enough to cause widespread damage
> and death will hit the Earth only about once every 1,000 years, but
> experts say the destruction would be so extreme that nations should
> develop a joint defense against asteroids.
Every 1000 years? Is that the current estimate? That's pretty often!
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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