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To: Bill who wrote (549402)	3/9/2004 7:28:46 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Respond to of 769669

Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? By Irene Mona Klotz, Discovery News March 5, 2004 — Perhaps it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern that sparked the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed the downtown area and claimed 300 lives. New research lends credence to an alternative explanation: The fire, along with less-publicized and even more deadly blazes the same night in upstate Wisconsin and Michigan, was the result of a comet fragment crashing into Earth's atmosphere. etc etc... dsc.discovery.com (Instead of spending a fortune to send a man to Mars and getting nothing beneficial for it we should do something about avoiding collisions with comets and asteroids.)