European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 24, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9comet peril serious scientist says Greenbelt my. Apr the battering of Jupiter by a train of Comet fragments impressed on the Earth a vital lesson yes comets do hit planets and when they do there can be great devastation. Eugene Shoemaker co discoverer of the Comet that sent Mountain sized fragments smashing into Jupiter said Friday that the we Klong bombardment of the giant planet has awakened Many people to the fact that the universe can be a very dangerous place. A it has been very hard to convey to the Public at Large and to members of Congress that impacts of comets Are serious that they really do happen a said Shoemaker a . Geological Survey scientist who has studied comets for More than 30 years. Ltd now that we be seen a Comet actually hit a planet it has brought Home the fact that there really is a finite determinable Hazard out there a he said. There Are now at least 100 known objects orbiting the Sun that periodically Cross the Earth a orbit. But by Shoemakers estimate there could be As Many As 2,000 comets or asteroids big enough to do great damage that Are periodically crossing the Earth a orbit. He said there is about one Chance in 1,000 that a Comet or asteroid As big As a half mile would hit the Earth within a lifetime. The chances of a Comet the size of Shoemaker Levy 9 hitting the Earth is about one every 100 million years he said. A if there is one the statistics Are irrelevant Quot said astronomer Lucy Mcfadden of the University of Maryland. The Comet that hit Jupiter with 21 fragments a the last one hitting on Friday a delivered to that planet an explosive Force equal to about 40 million Megatons of int. This is far More powerful than the Energy of All of the nuclear bombs Ever built. At the height of the arms race the United states had about 20,000 Megatons of weapons and the soviet Union had about 60,000 Megatons according to the natural resources defense Council. Shoemaker was among scientists who concluded in study two years ago that the danger to the Earth of cometary Impact was real and that the world could do something about it. There were proposals but no a the Impact of the Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 on the surface of Jupiter shows up in dark scorch Marks in this photograph taken by the Hubble space Telescope on wednesday and released Friday. Tion was taken by Congress. Now the House science space and technology. Committee has voted to support legislation that would authorize Nasa to draw up a plan for a 10-Ycar program to identify and Catalon All asteroids or comets larger than a half mile in diameter that Are on a course that crosses Earth a orbit. The proposal has not been voted on by the full House. Shoemaker said he does not favor establishing a standby defense system ready to Spring into action at the moment an earthbound Comet or asteroid is found. He said Many such objects with a careful search could be identified More than two years before they hit Earth. That would give the world time to figure out what to do he said. But first said the scientist there needs to be an Al sky Survey to search for earthbound  if there was anything out there with our name on it we could find it a said Shoemaker. The final piece of. Shoemaker Levy 9, called fragment a slammed into Jupiter Early Friday morning leaving a characteristic Black splotch. Photos now show that the far Southern part of Jupiter is pocked with dark smears left by huge fireballs that erupted with the Impact of the largest of the comets 21 fragments. Bob West of the Jet propulsion Laboratory said at least 11 of the fragments left a big Black splotches High above the Jupiter Cloud tops a i think they will be very Long lived features because they Are in the stratosphere a said West. The Black material will eventually dissipate and by watching closely scientists can learn much about the stratospheric circulation and weather patterns of Jupiter about which Little is now known. Andrew Ingersol of the California Institute of technology said that images of the Impact Sites show that the comets triggered amp stratospheric wave that swept outward farming in some cases neatly circular features. Quot a f a a a a this suggests that the Comet lost most of its Energy High up instead of penetrating deeply a he said. This Means that the comets May not have penetrated to a Cloud layer that contains mostly water. Ingersol said Energy Waves created by the comets May go deeply into the gaseous exterior of Jupiter and could help scientists learn More about the chemistry of the giant planet. Studying the Black splotches also will give scientists a better idea about the chemistry of Jupiter i Mcfadden said there has been one tentative report about the presence of. Water in the Comet Impact Clouds. Earlier scientists reported identifying Sulphur Hydrogen sulfite and ammonia. Remains by Cox news service. Atlanta a thousands of water fogged cemetery records line the hallways of Georgia Bureau of investigation Headquarters this week As authorities try to identify hundreds of remains washed from Albany cemeteries by recent floods. In Albany officers from the Obi and the department of natural resources some using helicopters or boats continued searching for bodies and caskets washed from the cemeteries last week by the flooding Flint River in Southwest Georgia Obi director buddy Nix said thursday. So far 390 have been found Nix said. Ten More were recovered from a cemetery in Baker county. Oitice recovered remains Are stored in refrigerated trucks until they can be properly identified and reburied he said. That could take  Obi Headquarters thousands of soggy filing cards and 13 soaked ledgers from Albanys Oakview and Riverside cemeteries Are being dried and studied for clues about the remains. The two publicly owned cemeteries Are Side by Side and contain 15,000 to 18,000 Graves Obi officials said. Menendez tape with therapist of d for use in /. You just did you can now advertise your products events and services to 150,000 daily readers at incredibly Low rates. This and for example can Cost you As Little As $51.72. For info Call Germany civilian 06155-601247 or Dan 348-8247. Los Angeles apr a taped conversation with a therapist in which the Menendez Brothers discuss killing their parents cannot be kept out of their retrial on murder charges a judge ruled Friday in a pretrial motions hearing judge Stanley Weisberg said that during the first trial the defense had offered evidence of the Brothers mental and emotional state and so could not reassert claims of patient therapist privilege a Date for the new trial has not been set. A Lyle and Erik Menendez whose first trial ended in Hung juries Are charged in the August 19s9 Shotgun slayings of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in the family a Beverly Hills mansion. During the first trial two separate juries were empanelled because some evidence applied to Only one or the other defendant. Alyle Menendez 26, and his brother Erik 23, claim they shot their parents because they feared for their lives after years of sexual and mental abuse. Prosecutors contend the Brothers killed out of hatred and greed. The Brothers who were arrested in March 1990, remain jailed without bail. The Brothers discuss the killings on the tape recorded in december 1989 with therapist Jerome oziel. Among issues still to be heard is whether the two will be tried before separate juries or at separate trials and whether the defendants previous Tusti Mony can be used at their retrial. Weisberg said at a june hearing that he favored using one jury for the retrial because the two panel system proved unwieldy during the first trial. Deputy District attorney David Conn said the prosecution will seek the death penalty. Earlier Weisberg ordered writer Robert Rand to turn Over excerpts of taped interviews he conducted with Erik Menendez on oct. 22, 1989, and with Donovan Goodreau Lyle Menendez a former Roommate at Princeton University in new Jersey on dec. 7,1990. The prosecution asked that the full recordings be turned Over but the judge rejected that request citing californians shield Law for journalists. 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