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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (20930)	5/6/2004 4:42:32 PM
From: Tom Swift	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32906

The theory behind NEAT is that, should we detect an asteroid hazard early enough, we can send weaponry into space and theoretically anyway, explode the asteroid into trillions of tiny pieces, which would make for one heck of a fireworks display when those "falling stars" harmlessly impacted our outer atmosphere and burned up without causing any serious damage to our planet. I saw that movie - Steve Buscemi had a great role -g Seriously, we would need a lot of warning to blow up a dinosaur killer - Clementine (kinda) shows it is possible, but I would think a six-month warning is required. It seems that the ones that make the news are spotted only days and weeks before a close pass.