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Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028
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- Subject: Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 0:35:03 GMT
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>my point is that someone uninfected with "p.t. barnum syndrome" does not
>issue a request for one's colleagues to do a follow-up on one's
>calculations via a press release! c'mon. this would typically have been
>handled far more elegantly.
I do agree with you on that part. Brian Marsden may have jumped the
gun a bit about this announcement. On the other hand, his job is to
get the news out as quick as possible on available data. However, when you
say an asteroid has a chance of impacting the Earth, that does get
people's attention. To get some more insight on this, see this
article:
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/asteroid0311.html
Ron Baalke