Comments on: NEO hearing next week http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/10/03/neo-hearing-next-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neo-hearing-next-week Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Space Politics » Rescheduled House NEO hearing http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/10/03/neo-hearing-next-week/#comment-25503 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:21:37 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/10/03/neo-hearing-next-week/#comment-25503 […] House Science Committee’s space subcommittee hearing on NASA’s near Earth object (NEO) s… that was scheduled for last month but postponed because of the funeral for Rep. Jo Ann Davis is […]

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/10/03/neo-hearing-next-week/#comment-23399 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:35:20 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/10/03/neo-hearing-next-week/#comment-23399 Ironically, I am just now reading the paper about the probable asteroid collision that created the impactor that killed off the dinosaurs in Nature. Great line in the associated coverage, “It is a poignant thought that the Baptistina collision [that created the cloud of debris one of which hit the Earth killing the dinosaurs and another hitting the moon creating Tyco] some 160 million years ago sealed the fate of the late-Cretaceous [65 million years ago] dinosaurs well before most of them have even evolved. The most important point raised by Bottke and colleagues’ discovery of the Baptistina asteroid family is how severe the repercussions of cataclysmic collisions in the asteroid belt can be for the Earth-Moon system.”

— Donald

BTW, please note that my Web site is finally back up!

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