ABSTRACT
On 13 March 1998, the London published some remarkable headlines" The article, on page 7, was entitled "End of the World?" with a subtitle: "At 6.30 p.m. on October 26, 2028, a mile-wide asteroid with the destructive power of two million Hiroshima bombs is coming". It went on as follows:
"A mile-wide asteroid that could collide with Earth 30 years from now is threatening to wipe out civilisation, scientists revealed yesterday.
