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12/20/2007, 10:21 PM
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Attention all Martians:
Y'all in store for a HEAP of hurt. 'Yup, I'd be closing out the 'ol First Bank of Mars checking and savings account and heading for Missouri or some such. Maybe Arizona. 'Yup:
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday. ''These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids,'' said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November and is similar in size to an object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb and wiping out 60 million trees.
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12/20/2007, 10:41 PM
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Mars is just north of pittsburgh!!!!!
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12/20/2007, 10:42 PM
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12/20/2007, 10:51 PM
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12/20/2007, 11:03 PM
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THis should be interesting.
We have our own little problem, named Apophis, which is due for a near pass upcoming...but it's supposed to miss the first time around the block. I hope we get a good NASA appropriation.
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12/21/2007, 06:06 AM
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 I'll be at a meeting in Dallas on 1/30. 
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