[FPSPACE] Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't Paranoid After All
LARRY KLAES
ljk4 at msn.com
Mon Jul 7 11:10:02 EDT 2008
Maybe Chicken Little Wasn't Paranoid After All
New York Times July 6, 2008
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
has estimated that a Tunguska-size
asteroid (just 90 feet across,
leveling some 800 square miles of
forest in Siberia) will enter
Earth's atmosphere once every 300
years and says there may be 375,000
objects of such size out there. NASA
only tracks potential "civilization
killers" of 1 kilometer (.62 miles)
or...
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