Re: Fw: (meteorobs) Doomsday Icarus

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• Subject: Re: Fw: (meteorobs) Doomsday Icarus
• From: David Morrison <dmorrison@mail.arc.nasadot gov> (via Lew Gramer)
• Date: Wed, 11 Mar 98 14:35:31 -0500
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Victor:

The article (below) about Icarus hitting the Earth in 2006 is, of course,
nonesense.  Icarus will miss the Earth by tens of millions of kilometers.
This is pure fiction.

David Morrison

>David:
>What do you make of the following post on a number of meteor and astronomy
>lists?
>Victor
>
>----------
>> From: C. Hernandez <herdel@sol.racsa.co.cr>
>> Subject: (meteorobs) Doomsday Icarus
>> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 8:59 PM
>>
>> Following you'll find a free translation of the article published last
>> Sunday on "La Nacion" the most popular daily newspaper of Costa Rica,
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The article reads as follows:
>>
>>      <<	ASTEROID COLLISION FORESEEN
>>
>> 	EFE. Moscow
>>
>> 	Russian scientists said that the end of the world will take
>> 	place in eight years, when Earth will collide with an asteroid,
>> 	and only the joint effort of all countries could avoid the
>> 	dramatic ending. [snip]

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