Re: Asteroid impact

["David Krentz" <david_krentz@fa.disney.com>]

Reply to:RE>>Asteroid impact                                 9:45 AM   
3/13/98

  Asteriod hurtling towards Earth huh.... Funny how two movies about this
subject are being released this summer.   I'm not implying anything, but
remember Ebola and the movie Outbreak?  Or even stranger still, Utahraptor and
Jurassic Park.
  David Krentz

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Date: 3/13/98 7:35 AM
To: David Krentz
From: jhecht@world.std.com
Revised calculations late yesterday put the distance at 600,000 miles, a
much bigger safety margin. Since the Times covered the 30,000 mile distance
at the top of page 1, expect the clarification to be buried on page 26 of
the Saturday issue. <g>
-- Jeff Hecht

>>From New York Times, Friday the Thirteenth:
>
><<...Based on observations since then, Marsden announced Wednesday that the
>object was likely to come within 30,000 miles of the earth on Oct. 26, 2028
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>closer than any such object observed in the past. Under the circumstances,
>there was a risk that the asteroid might hit the earth, causing immense
>devastation, he said. ...>>
>
>Isn't October 26 also the Bishop Ussher "birthday" of Earth? Odd coincidence,
>if so.