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Re: Coincidence of meteor strike and close asteroid approach at same time.
Posted:
Feb 20, 2013 11:21 AM
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On Feb 20, 8:40 am, Jeff Findley <jeff.find...@nospam.ugs.com> wrote:
> In article <kg29a9$27o...@matchbox.inf.ed.ac.uk>,
> rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk says...
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> > In article <3246ca96-d581-45bc-b8b5-25d4ebd07...@j9g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
> > Robert Clark <rgregorycl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > She states the two have very different orbits so they should be
> > >unrelated, but acknowledges that the very low probability of their
> > >both occurring so close to each other in time is puzzling.
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> > No, it's not puzzling. It would only be puzzling if there was an
> > explanation and you couldn't find it. But there isn't an explanation,
> > and doesn't need to be.
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> This is the definition of a pure coincidence. Nothing special.
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> Jeff
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Nobody has actually looked, officially, for an explanation that
doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
Bob Clark
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