[meteorite-list] Astronomers Survey Sky For Big Asteroids

From: Sharkkb8_at_aol.com <Sharkkb8_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:46 2004
Message-ID: <41.16b7b272.297499bb_at_aol.com>

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> Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage.
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> <A HREF="http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/">http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/impacts/</A>
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If the odds of dying of an asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, wouldn't
that mean that 12,500 people (out of the USA's 250,000,000) figure to die
that way?

There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it?

Gregory

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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Your answer is at the bottom of the following webpage.
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<BR>If the odds of dying of an asteroid/comet strike are 20,000 to 1, wouldn't that mean that 12,500 people (out of the USA's 250,000,000) figure to die that way? &nbsp;&nbsp;
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<BR>There is something wrong with this (surely), what is it?
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