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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! This is one you'll really want to read: Gregg Easterbrook's Atlantic Monthly cover story on the rather disconcerting odds that a Rilly Big Space Rock might fall on our heads. Excerpt: In 1980, only 86 near-Earth asteroids and comets were known to exist. By 1990, the figure had risen to 170; by 2000, it was 921; as of this writing, it is 5,388. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, part of NASA, keeps a running tally at www.neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats. Ten years ago, 244 near-Earth space rocks one kilometer across or more—the size that would cause global calamity—were known to exist; now 741 are.
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