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What delighted me was that it's 30 years from now — not next week or next year. … That would be totally hopeless; that would be terrifying, in fact. Time is on our side in this one — that's why it's such a wonderful illustration of the process... I say 30 years is a good long time to do something about it if it is a problem … We should be thankful we have this kind of notice.

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This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn't have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We've had at least two reports of a new star.

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We have to beef up our searches, which are now pretty dismal, so we can find out about these things before we get hit. … It takes a dramatic event to get people's attention, and we thought the comet crash with Jupiter might have done the job. … we tend to ignore an extraterrestrial hazard that could reduce the planet to rubble. … What we really need is a good scare.

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Brian G. Marsden

Brian G. Marsden

Born: August 5, 1937
Died: November 18, 2010 (aged 73)
Bio: Brian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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