Unseen comet's orbit indicates possible crash
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 2011
A stream of dusty fragments from a comet born in the outermost reaches of the solar system has hit the Earth on a path that leads astronomers to conclude the comet itself could be "potentially hazardous" if it crashes into the planet.
The comet's location is unknown, making it difficult to say when it will approach Earth, but "the orbits of the dust trail tells us that the comet is on a path that could eventually hit us," said Peter Jenniskens, an astronomer at the SETI Institute and the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View…
"I couldn't believe my eyes at first," he said. But once he had had determined the identical orbits of the fragments he teamed with Finnish astronomer Esko Lyytinen to predict that the dust trail will return in 2016, again in 2023, and once again in 2076…
[Editor’s Note: 2016 would work best for the pension plan.]Full article at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/28/MNR21KFRTC.DTL
Let's ask the President (not Yudof - the other President):
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