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Re: Geographos

Bernd Pauli wrote:
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> I am just reading Tom Gehrels’ article ‘Detection of Asteroids’ in the
> latest issue of METEORITE! (May 1998, Vol. 4, No.2). On page 18, he
> mentions Herrick’s 1979 proposal  to exploit certain asteroids, ‘namely
> the deliberate impact of Geographos to make another Panama Canal in the
> year 1994; it was considered so far out that it did not make that book,
> but it was published posthumously in the "Asteroids" book of 1979 with
> an apology of the editor’.
> 

Hello Bernd,
I would love to see the "Environmental Impact Statement" on something
like this.  [ Pun intended (:-)  ]
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