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Article: HE'S AFRAID OF ASTEROIDS ON THE BRAIN

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August 25, 1994
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Jim Gordon's column runs Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call him at 881-3116.

While memories of Shoemaker-Levy 9 are still fresh in our minds, it's a good time to act on developing some sort of global hard hat to protect us from incoming space objects. I don't know about you, but I don't relish the thought of being squashed like a bug. It would ruin my new suit.

Should you need a reminder, Shoemaker-Levy 9 is the comet whose fragments rained down on Jupiter for 10 days, starting on July 16.

And although it didn't prove to be the valuable excuse for all sorts of telecommunication difficulties I thought it might be, it did ...

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