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I came down in a cable car, and err

Jean sat here, he wanted to sit down,

For the last one of the day.

And he never got back.

Ironically today was

their third anniversary

French rescue trams are combing the

mountain side for skier Jean Paul Chounard.

A bitter twist to an already

frightening turn of events.

The French have an expression.

"The more things change"

"The more they stay the same"

But tonight as the lucky ones celebrate happy to be alive...

.One senses these people will never be the same again

Paul Whitaker reporting from Lourdes,

France.

Little is known tonight about the third

impact site, in China.

But as correspondent Denise Wong

reports from beijing,

the communist government has put

the country on a state of alert

Sandy. Its just after 10:15 in

the morning here in Beijing.

The Chinese news agency has reported, that the

third Asteroid hit at 9:29 am, Beijing time.

It struck at 105 degrees east, 45 degrees north.

Along China's border with Mongolia.

While little more has come

from the government here.

Reuters has just released

this aerial photo taken.

By the French satellite agency

SP02.

From 12 miles above the Earth.

The crater is almost a mile

and a half across

Denise!! That's almost identical,

I repeat, Identical!

To the Wyoming impact site.

What do you know about casualties?

Well Sandy Too Fong

Is in a remote area.

Of the Gobi Desert, with

no rail lines, on two highways.

In or out.

As a result, it may be days, before the full

damage from this crash site can be assessed.

We'll be back to Denise as soon

as there's more Thank you!!

We switch now to the Johnson Space Center

where Matt Jensen, is standing by

Sandy!! The NASA scientists

who track these enormous Asteroids.

Sometimes refer to them, as Killer Rocks!!

As such one of the first questions

we asked, was how ??

How could an Asteroid of this magnitude

have been so close to Earth.

And not be detected till impact.

In July, the Comet Shoemaker Levy 9

struck the planet Jupiter, in a series.

Of massive impacts, equal in force to

2 million Hydrogen bombs.

These events were monitored

World wide.

Through the enormous eye of the

Hubble space telescope, orbiting the Earth.

Scientist had known for months That these

events on Jupiter were about To take place.

In fact, they actually able to predict

the precise moments of impact.

Dr Kurt Martin was one of the NASA

Scientists Tracking Shoemaker Levy.

Well, what about it Doctor, why

the surprise this time ???

Well first of all, there are at present,

some 25 hundred near earth Asteroids.

OF magnitude of one mile and above,

that could intercept with the Earth.

We've only identified about 10

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