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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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December 27th, 2007 • Richard Cochrane

An asteroid about as big as a basketball court has a 1 in 75 chance of smacking into Mars’ equator while travelling about 8 miles a second on January 30th. If it does it will be similar to the object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb and leave a hole the size of the famed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The NASA Mars Rover is in the neck-of-the-woods but will be out of range if the hit occurs.

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