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City-Sized
Asteroid to Pass Earth on Sept. 29, 2004
Catastrophe
Calculator: Estimate Asteroid Impact Effects Online
The
Impact Debate
Experts on asteroids and comets discuss the past, present, and future
effects of asteroid and comet impacts in this 4-part Impact Debate.
The
Search for the Missing Amazon Meteor
24 September 2002: The Araona people wanted $1 million before they would
let the NASA scientists pass through their territory in the remote Bolivian
Amazon. Given a budget of $20,000 for their entire expedition, the scientists
resorted to negotiating, and the indigenous people eventually agreed to
a payment of $500, plus 500 rounds of .22 ammunition and 200 D-cell batteries.
All to find precious evidence of a possible impact crater.
NASA
Scientists Call British Media's Asteroid Hype Unethical Rubbish
29 July 2002: The whole affair, over an asteroid that is almost certainly
harmless, illustrates the stylistic ocean that separates American and
British media and scientists' tactics in dealing with them.
Protecting the
Planet
SPACE.com
Q&A with
Asteroid Hunter David Morrison
02 July 2002: David Morrison figures his long effort to keep the world
safe from asteroids has been very successful. "In 11 years of protecting
the planet, not a single human has been killed," he pointed out to me
recently. That doesn't mean he isn't worried.
The Dread Factor
Why
We Fear Ourselves More than Asteroids
26 March 2002: Sociologists and Psychologists explain why we spend billions
to thwart terrorism but comparatively little to protect the planet against
space rocks.
Moon
Base Would Scan The Sky, And Deflect Threats To Earth
12 December 2001: Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Langley Research
Center are sketching out space-based systems to spot mega and mini-hazards
headed this way.
Asteroid
Discoveries May Outpace Ability to Assess Threat to Earth
19 October 2001: The tally is expected to double in a matter of months
and likely soar a startling six-fold or more within 3 years.
The
Origin of Sex: Cosmic Solution to Ancient Mystery
10 July 2001: Comets and asteroids have been blamed for a lot of things
before. Shaping Earth. Jumpstarting life. Wiping out dinosaurs. Even possibly
altering human evolution. But never sex. Until now.
Reinventing
Darwin Again: How Asteroids Impacted Human Evolution
24 April 2001: In the five million years or so that it took for apes to
become human, many human-like species didn't make the cut. Were those
who came to travel to the Moon and ponder their very origin the logical
and inevitable victors in the most important of all Darwinian struggles?
Or did we just get lucky?
Cosmic Smack Encourages Life To Go
Forth and Multiply
Mass
Extinction & Rise of Dinosaurs Tied to Cosmic Collision (Intelligent
Civilizations, Too)
Catastrophe,
Mother of Evolution: Life Survived Early Bombardment
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