Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>:
> Benny Peiser, an expert on near earth objects at Liverpool John Moore's
> University in England, said that most asteroids do not come so close, but
> noted the latest ``reminder'' comes as Britain tests telescopes on the
> Spanish island of La Palma to search for the objects.

I thought the location of these telescopes since the first thing I think of when I
hear "La Palma" is that someday it will fall into the sea, creating a huge tsunami:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/29/tidal.wave/

Just searching the web, I found (only in Google cache) an article that says that the
wave would be much smaller:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:0uvd1e08kkwC:www.sthjournal.org/193/ts193c.pdf+
%22la+palma%22+tsunami&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

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