Re: Asteroid 4179 Toutatis to Pass Closely By Earth on September 29

From: Thomas Lee Elifritz (crackpots_at_everywhere.net)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:54:20 GMT

September 27, 2004

Ron wrote:

> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news144.html
>
> Asteroid (4179) Toutatis to Pass Closely By Earth on Wednesday, September 29, 2004.
> Donald K. Yeomans and Paul W. Chodas
> Near-Earth Object Program
> September 27, 2004
>
> Toutatis, a potato-shaped asteroid about 4.6 km (3 miles) in its longest
> extent, will pass within 1,550,000 km (961,000 miles) of the Earth's center
> on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - reaching its closest approach at
> 13:36:32 GMT (06:36:32 PDT).

For guidance only, errors may be large.

So, if you have little faith in the computer modeling, you still have all day tomorrow,
to put up your asteroid shutters, rush your asteroid preparations to completion, and
evacuate to your nearest public asteroid shelter.

This is a test of your asteroid emergency system.

This is only a test.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net