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Date:
Thu, 13 July 2006 10:40 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Related Articles of Asteroid July 2, 2006
Since beside you there are also others who
may read this, it is important to supply any information here
completely. Also to make historical moments could be understood clearly
in the future. Including about "Asteroid Missing Collision With Earth"
on July 2, 2006, here are two articles related to it that I obtained in
the Yahoo News.
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Asteroid has near-collision with
Earth: scientists
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Mon Jul 3, 2:00 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An
asteroid hurtling through space came within a hair's
breadth -- in astronomical terms, at least -- of
crashing into the Earth, US scientists said.
Apollo Asteroid 2004 XP14 was discovered by the
Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, part
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which
claims the title of "the world's principal detector
of asteroids" said Roger Sudbury, a spokesman for
the lab.
"We were the
discoverer," said Sudbury of the Apollo Asteroid
2004 XP14, which passed 268,873 miles (some 432,000
kilometers) from the Earth at 0425 GMT.
The distance between the
two bodies was slightly greater than that between
the Earth and the moon -- a close shave in the
vastness of outer space. Sudbury said the Cambridge,
Massachusetts-based Minor Planet Center, which is
affiliated with the Lincoln Lab, had classified the
body as a "potentially hazardous asteroid,"
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because of its proximity
to Earth which, had it been hit, would have caused a
"significant impact."
"In a few years we've
detected more than have ever been discovered in
history," he said.
"Most would just burn up
upon entry into the atmosphere," Sudbury said.
"The question, of
course, is where the Earth is as the asteroid goes
by?"
Sudbury said The Minor
Planet Center has several criteria, including size
and other factors, to indicate "whether an asteroid
could actually penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and
do significant damage."
He said scientists were
able to reassure the public that there was never any
great risk that Monday's asteroid would stray off
course and crash into the Earth. Sudbury told AFP
that near-Earth asteroids were once believed to be a
rarity, but recent scientific and technological
advances have allowed researchers to track asteroids
that previously escaped detection.
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Asteroid Zips
Harmlessly Past Earth
2004 XP14 Misses Earth By 269,000
Miles
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LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2006
(AP) A large asteroid
hurtled harmlessly past the Earth at a distance of about
269,000 miles — slightly farther away than the moon.
Residents with telescopes in the United States and
Canada had the best view of 2004 XP14, which appeared
early Monday as a streaking dot in the northern sky.
Astronomers tracking the
space rock's path since its discovery in 2004 had
determined that it would pose no risk to Earth during
the encounter nor in the next 100 years. Judging by its
brightness, 2004 XP14 was estimated to be a quarter-mile
to a half-mile wide.
An asteroid that size, if it
smashed into Earth, would probably cause regional
destruction. Scientists have said it would take a
mile-wide or larger asteroid to cause widespread
devastation that could threaten civilization. Asteroid
encounters are not uncommon. More than three dozen,
mostly smaller, asteroids have flown closer to Earth in
the last few years. But the latest was unusual because
it was thought to be among the largest to have flown by.
Scientists believe an
asteroid or comet impact probably wiped out the
dinosaurs 65 million years ago and gave rise to the age
of mammals. But the probability of an asteroid hitting
the Earth and causing a global disaster in the near
future is extremely low, they say. Asteroids the size of
2004 XP14 collide with Earth about every 84,000 years.
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Scientists said it is
hard to predict what would happen if such an event
occurred because it depends on the object's makeup, its
angle and speed, and whether it was headed for the ocean
or land. An asteroid similar in size to 2004 XP14 would
probably punch through the atmosphere and cause
destruction on a regional scale, one expert said. If it
smashed into the United States, it would probably
destroy several states, but not the entire continent,
said Don Yeomans, who heads the Near Earth Object
Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"It would be quite serious,
but not a global catastrophe," he said. If it hit an
ocean, it would likely create killer waves like the
deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, said Brian Marsden,
director of the Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts.
"Something as large as this clearly does make a bit of a
mess," Marsden said.
Besides devastation in the
immediate impact zone, another concern is the extent to
which debris from the collision would spread in the
atmosphere, like ash from a volcanic eruption, possibly
dimming or blotting out the sun. Astronomers will
analyze radar data on 2004 XP14 over the next several
days to get a better idea of its shape and future
trajectory.
©MMVI, The Associated
Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Date:
Thu, 13 July 2006 11:15 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
The Second Chance Has Begun
In the last part of my letters to Paris
Hilton I wrote that after the end of my Part Death, I am going to the
Part Second Chance. Actually it was based on the common sense, that
everybody should die sooner or later, including myself. So even when I
have passed the dead line of my consent to meet the end, like written in
my letters of "Paris Bridge to Heaven", I would still meet the end
sooner or later in my second chance.
A few days later after I wrote it, I began
to feel that my second chance has just approaching me, when I saw the
match result of the semifinal between Italy against Germany in the FIFA
World Cup 2006, whereas Italy won by 2-0. It was like a second chance
has begun for me, because in 1982, Italy also beat Germany, except that
it was in the final match. At that moment in 1982, I was watching the
game in the house of Nita with other members of her family, and I
happened to place myself on the Italian side when before the match began
Nita's sister asked me who did I think would win.
Now it happened again, in World Cup 2006,
Italy beat Germany, like reminding me about my having to enter my second
chance. But then I denied it, by thinking that it was still the
semifinal, not the final match like in 1982. Anything could happen in
the final match against France, I thought.
Until later on, the final match of Italy
against France took place, and again Italy won the match to get the FIFA
World Cup 2006 title. So now I could not run away again, I am now
entering my second chance, whether I want it or not.
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Date:
Thu, 13 July 2006 11:35 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
What Kind of Second Chance Now
The important thing now is about what kind
of second chance related to my previous first chance in 1982 that I
should take for priority.
In 1982, the first chance for me were
containing three parts: the first chance to become a son in law of a
political figure that could lead me to enter the politics, the first
chance to have a wife, and the first chance to get a scholarship in the
middle east that would allow me to go to certain sacred places in the
middle east.
Now since this second chance is related with
my previous deadline of my consent to move out to the eternity, so my
priority should be to go to certain sacred places in the middle east.
Though it is not without risks, because I could meet the end of my life
there. Yet if it is for the good of this world, I think I should wish it
could happen soon, I wish to go to certain sacred places in the middle
east soon.
Besides, sometimes some people might think
that I have been possessed with certain strange energy, so it would be
better if I could go to sacred places in the middle east as soon as
possible to neutralize it.
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