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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (63)	3/14/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) of 480

Hey Bawky, did the White House blow this one by vetoing the "Interceptor"? Or was this part of their longer term master solution to eliminate having to reserve for Social Security? "Hey, if they all get hit by an asteroid, in say 2028, then we only have to break even on entitlements until then. Let's veto this Interceptor appropriation, and they'll never know what hit'em." Lawmaker Urges Asteroid Interceptor Saturday, March 14, 1998; 1:27 p.m. EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton is being urged to do more to study asteroids. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants the president to reverse his veto of $25 million for an asteroid interceptor. Rohrabacher says the program would have involved firing tiny intercepts into asteroids to provide scientists with information and test new technologies. Rohrabacher says the project would have been a low-cost ''proof of concept'' for any future attempt to protect earth from an asteroid collision. Scientists this week first estimated a mile-long asteroid might come within 30,000 miles of Earth in 30 years. They later amended their calculations to say it would only come within 600,000 miles of Earth. search.washingtonpost.com

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