From Michael.Schnyder at edsb.admin.ch  Thu Apr 21 09:26:31 2005
From: Michael.Schnyder at edsb.admin.ch (Michael.Schnyder@edsb.admin.ch)
Date: Thu Apr 21 08:26:37 2005
Subject: [linux-news] AW: [news-slashdot] Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth
	After All
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sorry f?r die Versp?tung - ich hoffe, Du wusstest das noch nicht


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> Gesendet: Montag, 18. April 2005 22:30
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> Betreff: [news-slashdot] Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All
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> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/191230
> [Time: 2005-04-18 20:18:00 / Author: timothy]
> [Topic: 160 / Comments: 1 / Type: science]
> 
> Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All
> 
>                                                               
>  [53]Space 
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> [54]Science 
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>              Posted by [55]timothy on Monday April 18, @04:18PM
>              from the take-evasive-action-spaceship-earth dept.
>    [56]ControlFreal writes "Asteroid 2004 MN4 was 
> [57]introduced earlier
>     on Slashdot, and although scientists are now [58]fairly 
> certain that
>    is will miss earth on April 13th, 2029, the modification 
> to its orbit
>    caused by Earth's gravity may still cause an impact one or 
> a couple of
>         orbits further down the road, the Times reports; the impact
>     probabilities in 2035, 2036 of 2037 [59]will not be known 
> until the
>    exact modification to its orbit is known; in 2029, that 
> is. By then it
>    may be too late for effective counter-measures. An impact 
> would cause
>    an energy release equivalent to about 1 Gigaton of TNT 
> (~4e+18 Joule),
>       and while that won't cause a massive extinction event, it causes
>     widespread devastation. [60]More info on 2004 MN4 can be 
> found here
>                                [61]and here."
> 
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