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From: Bondhan Winduratna <windurat@...>
Subject: Moga-moga hanya Scherz aza.
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:10:40 +0100

WASHINGTON -- Unless a miracle occurs in the next two months, an
asteroid the size of Rhode Island could strike Earth just after New Year's
day --and the impact will kill a staggering 3 billion people and virtually
destroy civilization as we know it!
GIANT ASTEROID slams into Earth in this computer conception.
The asteroid, discovered in 1989, is moving at 134,000 m.p.h. At the
timeof its discovery, the space rock did not appear to pose a threat to
ourplanet.
But over the past 10 years, it has become clear that we are directly in
itspath.
It has an 87 percent chance of striking Earth on Sunday, January 2 --
the day after the turn of the century.
That's the shocking conclusion of a team of seven scientists who have
met secretly with President Bill Clinton at least five times since
October
1, when it became clear that the collision seems inevitable.
Their task: To determine what, if anything, can be done to avoid the
approaching disaster.
The results are not heartening. The most brilliant scientific minds --
not only American but international -- have been unable to see any way
todivert the giant space rock.
White House officials remain tight-lipped on the subject, fearing
worldwide panic. But one scientist, noted astronomer Dr, Robert Cremson,
believesit's time to speak out.
"Clinton has instituted a top-secret plan and appropriated $3.2
billionthat the Pentagon and NASA say they will need to shoot the
asteroid
out of
the sky with nuclear weapons," Dr. Cremson said.
"The trouble is, most scientists now agree that destroying the asteroid
or altering its course with nuclear weapons would be a
million-to-onelongshot, if not a total impossibility. We have run
computer-simulated tests and
the plan has failed dismally.
"Military officials are proceeding with the plans to modify land-based
nuclear weapons for an assault on the asteroid because at this point
it's the only plan anyone has come up with.
"But if we don't come up with something better -- and fast -- chances
are that life as we know it will be over."
Dr. Cremson says he doesn't like to speculate on what will happen if the
asteroid strikes, but says there are two -- dismal -- scenarios.
"The impact could shatter a giant section of Earth into a million
pieces, sending fragments hurtling into space," he said. "Billions will
die.
"In the second scenario, the Earth will remain intact but the force of
the blow will kick enough dust and dirt into the atmosphere to block out
the
sun, plunging us into a devastating deep-freeze similar to the one
believed to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago."?B@

Report by :Weekly World News(US) / 20.10.99

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