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“While a coordinated asteroid search program is underway in the Northern Hemisphere, none exists south of the equator, creating a blind spot that equals nearly a third of the heavens. So 91 international astronomers and prominent space activists -- including a who's who of asteroid experts -- sent a letter asking the Australian government to rejoin the asteroid search seven years after the country dropped out.”
-- Robert Roy Britt, Space.com Senior Science Writer

“I read with interest Kevin Popes paper, and agree with some of his conclusions, but I don't agree with some of his reasoning behind it. My main disagreement is that he takes model-derived data (see his figures) rather than real world data one can obtain from the geological record at K/T.”
-- Dr. Jan Smit, Department of Sedimentology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam



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1. WORLD'S ASTEROID HUNTERS MAKE POLITICAL PLEA TO SAVE EARTH . . .
Space.com, 1 February 2002

• COLLIDING STORMS ON JUPITER AND A FLARING COMET . . .
SpaceWeather.com, 31 January 2002

• EUVE SPACECRAFT RE-ENTERS EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE . . .
Ron Baalke

• CLOSE APPROACHES OF PHAS DURING TWO CENTURIES . . .
JH Ji & L Liu

• RE: "ASTEROID IMPACT MAY HAVE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN WEALTH" . . .
Franco Pirajno

• POPE'S DUST-FREE K/T IMPACT STIRS UP LOTS OF DUST . . .
Jan Smit

• ON NUCLEAR & COSMIC WINTERS . . .
S. Fred Singer

• ABOUT THE CAUSE OF THE K/T EXTINCTIONS . . .
Tom Van Flandern

• 1680 COMET . . .
Duncan A. Lunan

• JOSHUA IMPACT . . .
Brian Moore

...And Finally:

• ASTEROID IMPACT HAZARDS "GREATLY OVERSTATED" . . .
New Scientist, 30 January 2002

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