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"My real worry is that too many people will get frantic about the impact hazard. ... I actually think we're doing about as much as we should."
-- Alan Harris, 27 February 2002

"Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater frequency than modern science would like to believe, and no coastline in the world is safe, says Canadian geologist-geographer Edward Bryant.... Bryant's suspicions of meteor and comet impacts a relatively short time ago rile many in the scientific community who believe the chances of Earth colliding with space debris are tiny. But Bryant says computer modelling suggests a meteor would not have to be a "dinosaur killer" to cause a mega-tsunami. A chunk 100 metres in diameter moving at 20 metres per second could theoretically produce a tsunami that is 27 metres high at source."
-- Michael Christie, Reuters, 26 February, 2002

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1. COMING ONE DAY NEAR YOU: A MEGA-TSUNAMI . . .
Reuters, 26 February, 2002

• CATACLYSM 3.9 BILLION YEARS AGO WAS CAUSED BY ASTEROIDS, NOT COMETS, RESEARCHERS SAY . . .
EurekAlert, 28 February 2002

• REPEATED BLOWS: IMPACTS AND MASS EXTINCTIONS . . .
Scientific American, March 2002

• NEW PROBE OF YUCATAN CRATER ENDS . . .
Sky & Telescope, 26 February 2002

• THE COMPOSITION OF ASTEROID 433 EROS . . .
Ron Baalke

• SAMURAI MAY HAVE SEEN 'NEW' COMET . . .
Asahi Shimbun, 28 February 2002

• POLAR ORGANISMS AND THE K/T . . .
Charles Cockell

• THE PANORAMIC OPTICAL IMAGER PROJECT . . .
Duncan Steel

• NEO SCALING AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNTER MEASURES . . .
Jon Richfield

• AN UPHILL STRUGGLE . . . ?
Michael Paine

• PLANETARY DEFENSE ISSUES AND CONCERNS . . .
David James Johnson

...And, Finally:

• SCIENTIST CALMS ASTEROID "FEARS" . . .
The Times Record, 27 February 2002

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