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"Asteroid impacts produce a number of environmental insults, several of which are implicated in subsequent global cooling episodes. But the formation of planetary rings by impacts is not a possible contributor to our understanding of these events because it is excluded by the laws of dynamics and physics."
--Tom Van Flandern, Meta Research, 26 June 2002

"In case you didn't notice, an asteroid barely missed hitting earth last week. It's okay if you didn't see it, neither did the thousands of scientists monitoring the skies until the asteroid had already gone past the earth. It was only the largest asteroid to miss earth in over two decades."
--Bermuda Sun, 26 June 2002

Comet

Frozen volatiles that jet in enigmatic geysers
from black mass of unknown stuff -comet!
Eager probes from planet Earth speed past
kevlar wrapped, staring, sampling, smelling
the gases, particles, molecules that glow
in skies now free from fear of unknown omens.

What's in that tiny core that masks itself
with luminous coma, streaming tails?
Mystery we hope to open up by hurling down
a copper missile from our probe to scatter
debris and provoke an outburst to reveal whatever
lurked inside that planetisimal since creation!
Malcolm Miller
27.6.2002

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1. BON VOYAGE, CONTOUR, AND HAPPY COMET CHASING . . .
European Space Agency, 27 June 2002

• CHASING A COMET'S TAIL . . .
The Guardian, 27 June 2002

• ASTEROIDS AND SOCCER BALLS: NEAR MISS OR NOT, THEY ALL END UP IN THE NET . . .
Otago Daily Times, 26 June 2002

• 'NO ADDITIONAL NEO TELESCOPES NEEDED ONLY UNTIL 2008': DAVE MORRISON'S CLARIFICATION . . .
David Morrison, 26 June 2002

• TWO RECENT ASTEROID "NEAR MISSES" . . .
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard, 24 June 2002

• NEW NEO WEBSITE . . .
Alessandro Morbidelli

• IMPACT CRATERS ON EARTH . . .
http://www.sciencemall-usa.com/impactposter.html

• RE: IMPACT-TRIGGERED ICE AGES?
Mark Boslough

• Re: IMPACT-TRIGGERED ICE AGES?
John Fleck

• PLANETARY RINGS NOT A FACTOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COOLING . . .
Tom Van Flandern

...And, Finally:

• THE END IS NIGH, AGAIN . . .
Reason Magazine, 26 June 2002

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