Re: close approach

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Means I'm not going to get uptight just yet.  Based on a very short
observation period, there appears to be about one chance in 250,000 that we
might get whacked by a 1 1/4 mile asteroid doing about 18 miles/second,
packing the energy of about 60 million of the nuclear bombs that were
dropped in WWII.  Odds for a miss will most likely improve substantially
with increased observation time.
Thanks for the help,
Jim

Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/24/02 6:43:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jrccea@bellsouth.net writes:
>
> << Have any of you heard any details about the small asteroid discovered
> last week that may make a fairly close approach on February 2, 2019?  If
> so, could you pass along any info you might have? >>
>
>        Have a look here,Jim, then tell us what it means:
>        http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2002nt7.html
>
>        DV