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Charles Bell Apr 9, 2009

Hey Bill,

From what I remember of last October, your noting that 2008 TC 3 being an impactor on the mpml yahoo group was key to its getting attention. I was kind of dissapointed that this recent news media coverage associated with the Nature article and NASA press release did not seem to mention you. To add, no mention of many observers around the world besides the professional surveys, NASA, JPL and SETI.  I don't have access to a library that has suff like Nature and I certainly can't afford a subscription to all those over peer reviewed publications. I could be wrong. I just wanted to say that and offer my moral support for your very fine program. It works very well. 

I am somewhere on the learning curve for orbit calculations. I am still trying to figure out how Gauss did the first one.

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