Keven writes:

>> Check out http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/02/08/asteroid.earth.ap/index.html
>> to read about a collision course with an asteroid.

> Guess this takes care of the 2027 and 2038 date problems.

> (Until you read paragraph 2 -- chances are 1:1000000)

Better odds than the Lottery, and how many of us have dropped a buck here
and there playing *those* odds?

But to get back to Rick's original post:

> My question is this..... How do you lose an asteroid that is over a half
> mile wide????  :)

Hmmm... Maybe it was...

"Tracking... tracking... tracking...

-----------------------------------------
| General protection fault at 0019:AB27 |
|      in program SPACWATC.EXE.         |
|                                       |
|   This program has caused a serious   |
|     error and will be terminated.     |
|                ------                 |
|                | OK |                 |
|                ------                 |
-----------------------------------------

<click!>"

Sorry, I couldn't resist! ;->

Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Analyst
Seabury & Smith, Inc.