Astronómos a minutos de llamar a Bush por posible choque de asteroide

El pasado 13 de Enero, hubo una crisis de 9 horas en los alto círculos astronómicos del mundo reportó el martes pasado la BBC.

Algunos científicos pensaban que al asteoroide 2004 S1 tenía 36 horas para chocar con la Tierra.

"It could have caused local devastation and the researchers contemplated a call to President Bush before new data finally showed there was no danger.
The procedures for raising the alarm in such circumstances are now being revised.
At the time, the president's team would have been putting the final touches to a speech he was due to make the following day at the headquarters of Nasa, the US space agency.
In it he planned to reset the course of manned spaceflight, sending it back to the Moon and on to Mars, but he could have had something very different to say...."

Parece que la nube de Oort anda todavía muy inestable, y no parece haber menguado el temporal...