Jim, Have you tried to plug this additional Russian sized asteroid into your probability model that they just found a couple of days ago passing between us and the moon?
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/03/17171923-another-asteroid-similar-to-russian-meteor-zooming-past-us-harmlessly?lite 1860 was the "Year of Meteors" following the largest solar flare event known. PannSTARRS is soon to zoom past Earth (100 Million miles away) approaching the Sun, I hope everyone behaves. Stewart On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm overwhelmed by just the 16 hour span of 2 rare-event coincidence and > am loathe to incorporate more as both a lot of work to validate and as well > as unnecessary to already put me in a state of mind that I'd rather not > deal with given the need to pay rent. > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jouni Valkonen > <jounivalko...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> James, >> >> I think that you should also consider that 2014 Mars comet flyby that is >> once in hundred million years event especially if it is going to hit the >> planet. Odd coincidence or is it just about pushing the Earth's space >> program ahead! >> >> If you have not yet read this Landis paper, I would recommend to read it >> because we must become a multiplanetary species. >> >> >> *Colonization of Venus* (by Geoffrey A. Landis) >> ABSTRACT: *Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile >> environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of >> Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the >> solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration >> of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and >> that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of >> cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the >> atmosphere of Venus.* >> >> http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030022668_2003025525.pdf >> >> —Jouni >> > >
