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To: Dayuhan who wrote (28603)	1/18/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

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To: Dayuhan who wrote (28603)	1/18/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

Two things. The planets lining up happens every so often, but it doesn't stay happened. They drift along merrily in their orbits. For the few days they're meaningfully aligned - the differeence in tide (the second derivative of gravitation, taht) is too small to do anything. Our own solar/lunar tides are several orders of magnitude stronger. Even Big J doesn't have a measurable tidal effect here. As for mountains falling into the sea - every 50000 years or so a cubic mile of Hawaii takes a sudden tumble. Impressive waves. We actually got this info (in part) by examining sediments in Oregon. Just saw your post about the 2000 planetary alignment. Check the date. Sell the piñata cos ( and the piñata-equips?) short.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (28603)	1/19/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Steve: The asteroids that have the greatest chance of hitting us are the Apollo and Icarus asteroid clusters. Both have asteroids that regularly cross our orbit. One came so close in the 80s that it skimmed our upper atmosphere and was caught on videotape (accedentally) by a man on vacation in the state of Washington. Unfortunately, if one of them is on a collision course with us, we would probably have at best a few weeks to determine it. Another complication is that sometimes their orbits are slightly modified as they whip around the sun. FT