Comets


Sting in the Tail -- Staff  -- New Scientist  -- March 24, 2001
Comets

AS GOVERNMENTS around the world prepare to spend millions studying the
threat of nearby asteroids hitting the Earth, an astronomer in Northern
Ireland is warning that comets might pose a greater danger. \"We may be
looking for a swarm of bees while standing on a railway line with the train
coming,\" says Bill Napier of the Armagh Observatory.

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Small but Deadly Comets Identified -- Damian Carrington  -- BBC News  -- September 16, 1999
Asteroid Defense

A geologist warns that hundreds of potentially catastrophic comets remain to be discovered.

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