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I do not mean to scare anyone, but there are asteroids out there with our name on them.
Of all the damnable natural disasters are those we can’t control. But even more alarming are those that also sneak up from behind.
(Overheard at asteroid conference, 1991)
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© 1996 Patricia Barnes-Svarney
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Barnes-Svarney, P. (1996). Introduction. In: Asteroid. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6148-8_1
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