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"If we haven't started building new telescopes within the next year or two, they won't be ready to take over in 2008. So now is the time to go on to the next step. But I think the search philosophy remains the same. Whether it's big ones or little ones, you carry out a survey, make a catalogue, calculate orbits, and predict future encounters with the Earth. We can predict the impact of a 100-meter or 50-meter object just as far in advance as a kilometer object, once we find it."
-- Dave Morrison, Space.com, 2 July 2002

"The purpose is to find these things as soon as possible. If there are centuries of warning, there are many things you can do about the threat. But if you only find out about it in the last day or two, or the last year, there's not much you can do."
-- Jon D. Giorgini, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 1 July 2002

"I finally must object most strenuously to Morrison's statement that: "There are no extra points for getting it on the way in. We just want to find them, catalog them, project their orbit, and make sure they're not a threat to us." While Morrison appears to think that there are no points for getting them on the way in, I am pretty certain that he stands nearly alone on this, as most here understand that more than occasionally those coming in do not go back out. Also, most here realize that sooner of later, and most probably sooner rather than later, we're going to find one these things that is a threat, and at that time we're going to face a very real and pressing need to do more than simply watch it hit and perhaps even kill very large numbers of people."
-- Ed Grondine, 1 July 2002

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1. PROTECTING THE PLANET: SPACE.COM Q&A WITH ASTEROID HUNTER DAVID MORRISON . . .
From Space.com, 2 July 2002

• IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE . . .
Newsweek International, 1 July 2002

• SKY-FALLING THREATS . . .
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 30 June 2002

• ESA HIGHLIGHTS CONTRIBUTION OF SPACE IMAGERY TO DISASTER RELIEF . . .
Andrew Yee

• AT 95, FRED WHIPPLE EMBARKS ON OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD TOUR . . .
Ron Baalke

• JPL NAVIGATORS DRIVE TWO-FOR-ONE COMET MISSION . . .
Ron Baalke

• USING CHONDRITES TO UNDERSTAND THE INSIDE OF ASTEROID 433 EROS . . .
Ron Baalke

• AMATEURS PRESENT THE SKIES TO THE WORLD . . .
Ledger-Enquirer, 1 July 2002

• RE: "NOTHING IN PHYSICS PROHIBITS IMPACT-PRODUCED RINGS" . . .
Ian Giblin

• DR PANGLOSS, APATHY & NECESSITY . . .
David Johnson

• AND NOW...A SHORT NOTE FROM ONE OF THE BETTER HISTORIANS OF THE 22cd CENTURY . . .
E.P. Grondine

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