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By Toutatis! Monster asteroid flyby excites doomsters, skygazers
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&u=/afp/20040926/sc_afp/space_asteroid_toutatis_040926041605&printer=1
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Six months ago, panicky rumours spread on the Internet that there was little
point to booking next year's summer holidays -- that NASA had got it wrong or
lied, and we were all heading for The Big One.

Websites run by Christian zealots and individuals in contact with aliens
predicted the Second Coming of Jesus or a secret US nuclear missile strike to
neutralise the asteroid.

Were Toutatis to collide with Earth, the energy released would be equivalent
to tens of thousands of hydrogen bombs, kicking up dust clouds which would
shield out the sunlight, plunging the planet and its inhabitants into a
lethal "impact winter."

It has not been so close to Earth since 1353 and won't be this close again
until 2562, says the specialist website space.com.
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Dianne
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