As I said at the outset, when reality hits, I would return, and this is one of those cases...

Yeah, Cobblers...

I have been pointing out for years that it is useless to estimate the Earth impact rate using crater counts for the Moon, at least until some theoretical studies are done on impact and the Earth-Moon system.

Since the NASA bureaucracy has been using lunar crater counts as a good excuse not to do anything about the impact hazard, what I expect they will now do is fund seriously deficient models - that way they will still be able to do what they want to do, which is to ignore the impact hazard and continue to give money to their existing set of clients...

ultimately this strategy will fail, but it is an open question when that failure will occur, and what will bring about that failure...

I am leaving HZ again - bye for a while

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