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"Sorry to be the one to break this news, but an Impactor Asteroid has
just been announced by NEODys, and this one... 1) Is very big, 2) Is on the same order of magnitude of impact probability as 2001AV43, 3) Will possibly impact the Earth in the very near future!"
--Tom, 17 August 2001

"Over the years his provocative and occasionally outrageous theories were a constant source of fascination and inspiration. Fred's independent thinking and contempt of the establishment were a refreshing antidote to academic stuffiness. It was a scandal that his irreverence probably cost him a Nobel prize for his ground-breaking work on nucleosynthesis."
-- Paul Davies, 22 August 2001

"The UK has a history of failure to engage in substantial space development. If this statement is taken to mean that advocacy of more wide ranging and cost effective launcher and space programs for the UK and ESA countries is to be forbidden, then the possibility of putting asteroids and comets into a positive context will be lost. All that would then be possible either a bland exercise in reassurance that there is not really much of a threat anyway, or that only military style nuclear solutions are envisaged. We should move purposefully away from such powerlessness towards the ability to avert the threat and convert it into an asset. Failing this, in time, the public would regard it the NEO Information Centre as pure spin."
--Michael Martin-Smith, 22 August 2001



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1. ANOTHER FALSE ASTEROID ALARM . . .
Benny J Peiser

• ASTEROID 2001 PM9 . . .
Brian Marsden

• UK GOVERNMENT INVITES PLANS FOR NATIONAL NEAR EARTH OBJECTS CENTRE . . .
BNSC, 20 August 2001

• STATEMENT OF WORK FOR UK NEO CENTRE . . .
British National Space Centre, 20 August 2001

• ASTEROID (COSMIC COLLISION) MAY HAVE CREATED HAWAII . . .
SPACE.com, 1 August 2001

• URANUS, NEPTUNE, AND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON . . .
Planetary Science Research, 21 August 2001

• SIR FRED HOYLE . . .
The Independent, 23 August 2001

• PROFESSOR SIR FRED HOYLE . . .
The Times, 22 August 2001

• SIR FRED HOYLE . . .
Paul Davies

• INTERNATIONAL SPACE COOPERATION WORKSHOP REPORT AVAILABLE . . .
Hans Haubold

• THE "OUT OF THIS WORLD" THREAT . . .
Alan Fitzsimmons

• WILL NEO CENTRE PRODUCE MORE THAN SPIN . . . ?
Michael Martin-Smith

• WILL THE NEW UK NEO CENTRE MENTION RIO CUARTO . . . ?
E.P. Grondine

• DOUBTS ABOUT PLANETARY DEFENSE . . .
John Michael Williams

...And Finally:

• SATELLITE IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK . . .
Space.com, 23 August 2001

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