Good summation
The good news is that even a relatively robust dedicated detection system, mostly Earth-based, is not that expensive relative to many other space projects.
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- 100 Years Since the Tunguska Event
- A Canadian operated asteroid-hunting satellite should probe the sky in 2010.
- House passes bill mandating a plan for asteroid warning and deflection
- That is in addition to the George Brown Jnr. Ammendment
- Once in 100 years, huh?...The next one will explode over the Pacific.
- A Hiroshima size explosion occurs in Earth's atmosphere around once a year.
- And yet, there is more of the surface of the earth that is not Pacific Ocean than is.
- A big enough impact in the ocean...
- The one that zipped over the US in 1972...
- re: The one that zipped over the US in 1972..it might still trigger a nuclear response .
- And there may be a 'recent' Arabian Tunguska that may have wiped out a merchant city/town.
- Happened in 1991 as well.