[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'm down wid 1950DA. The NEO page only list objects for which there is a collision risk in the next 100 years. In fact, the entire NEO project is only authorized to gaze 100 years into the future. It is only 400 years since Kepler, and 317 years since Summa Mathematica, so worring about an asteriod collision 880 years hence is a bit premature.

Of course, I'm sure those far-sighted ur-o-peens are already on the case, unlike that cowboy, Bush.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... yeah... an MP from Wales was pushing some years back (post SL9, probably circa 1999) for UK funding an NEO search program; US grant-seekers, oops, I mean scientists, started seeking US funding in 1994, right on the heels of those shots from the Hubble showing the blackened impact site, which was bigger than the Earth. :')

Good news! 2004 MN4 is back up to "1" on the Torino scale.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html

[SunkenCiv]

The Torino number remains at 1, and the number of encounters has gone back up a little, to 16.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the email. I'd not noticed anything but April. Looks like there are three different years in which October encounters are projected. Wish now that I'd archived the page. Maybe Google or the Wayback Machine has older versions.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html

couldn't get this one to do anything. Probably I have disabled Java in the browser.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=2004%20MN4

[SunkenCiv]

still Torino 1; impact probability 3.7e-05; number of encounters from 2044 to 2103 is eleven.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html