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...Spahr, "there were five messages waiting on my answering machine." Over the next several hours, he and others raced to try to figure out whether Earth truly was in danger. "All of us were initially very skeptical," says Clark Chapman, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "We thought it was a mistake or bad data or someone playing a trick...
Fortunately, the wait was not long. At around 3:30 E.T. that morning, Brian Warner, an amateur astronomer from Colorado Springs, Colo., aimed a telescope at the keyhole and found it was empty. 2004 AS1 wasn't going to hit Earth after all, and probably never will--luckily, since it turns out to be more like 1,600 ft. across. Next time, Spahr won't be depending on a sharp-eyed amateur. "Within two days after the incident," he says, "we had software to check for future impacts automatically...
...given special treatment and allowed to join a National Guard unit that was practically guaranteed not to go into combat? Is serving in such a unit the same as honorably serving today in a National Guard unit that is likely to see combat? DAN S. WARD Fort Collins, Colo...
...donation from the de Gaspe Beaubien Foundation is earmarked for an effort to make the HBS Baker Library’s Historical Collections accessible electronically, said Stevenson, speaking from Aspen, Colo...