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"PREPARE to be afraid, very afraid. The Government has set up a special unit to find out when the next horseman of the apocalypse will gallop through the neighbourhood. Killer asteroids, doomsday plagues and a morbid fear of something nasty lurking in the lab were once the sole preserve of the feverish minds of science fiction writers. In the past few days, however, the Government has announced that it will turn to sci-fi in a big way to anticipate catastrophes."
-- Roger Highfield, The Daily Telegraph, 18 July 2001

"The mining of asteroids, space-based hotels, zero-gravity manufacturing and medicine -- they're all part of the future commercialization of space, according to a joint government and industry group that's developing the InterPlaNetary (IPN) Internet. Starting this year, with NASA funding, the IPN will roll out in pieces over the next several decades to support communications among spaceships, robots and manned and unmanned outposts in the solar system."
-- Gary H. Anthes, CNN, 18 July 2001



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1. FIREBALL EXPLODES OVER NEW JERSEY . . .
The Trentonian, 18 July 2001

• ANCIENT CITIES VANISHED INTO MUDDY MORASS . . .
New Scientist, 18 July 2001

• WHO WILL SAVE US FROM DESTRUCTION? NEW TASK FORCE TO ASSESS EVERY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN (AND UNKNOWN UNKNOWN) HAZARD, DANGER, THREAT AND POTENTIAL RISK . . .
Daily Telegraph, 18 July 2001

• TIME TO DEMOTE PLUTO? MAYBE . . .
The Columbo Dispatch, 15 July 2001

• INTERPLANETARY INTERNET IN THE WORKS . . .
CNN, 18 July 2001

• EARTHQUAKES REVEAL DIAMONDS' ORIGINS . . .
Andrew Yee

• SUPERVOLCANOES . . .
Hermann Burchard

• TUNGUSKA EXPEDITION . . .
Andrei Ol'khovatov

• PLANETARY DEFENSE: DIRECT HIGH-SPEED INTERCEPTION . . .
Ulybyshev Y

• WOBBLING ASTEROIDS AND COMETS . . .
Michael Efroimsky

• DIRECT SIMULATION OF METEOROIDS AND SPACE DEBRIS FLUX ON LDEF SPACECRAFT SURFACES . . .
Jingqi Miao and J. P. W. Stark

• THE EUCRITE/VESTA STORY . . .
Drake MJ

• LOW ALBEDOS AMONG EXTINCT COMET CANDIDATES . . .
Fernandez YR, Jewitt DC, Sheppard SS

• FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF JAPANESE NEO WORKSHOP . . .
Syuzo Isobe

• FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: THE INSPIRATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA . . .
Rolf Sinclair

...And Finally:

• NO VOLCANOES, NO EARTHQUAKES, BUT LOTS OF CLOUDS. BRITISH ENVIRONMENT ON MARS . . .
Andrew Yee

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