OT: asteroid in-bound... - Reply

In amongst all the HHGG references (with a side order of Niven, Bear et
al.), Mk
wrote:

> ...remember this event is still 30 years down the road. They have time

It didn't take 'em that long. As of 0800Z this morning, it had been announced
that "they" had already refined their calcs, and the asteroid in question is
now expected to pass about 500,000 miles away (well, the Beeb said something
like, "twice as far away from the Earth as the Moon").

What this means for all you hitch-hikers, deponent knoweth not...

Phil, who really enjoyed the H2G2 20th Anniversary program on R4 last week. I
_gotta_ get a copy of the Eagles album with "Journey of the Sorceror" on
it...