[EAS] Time for new code? Asteroid impact Alert

[Sean Donelan]

The bureaucratic problem that no agency is authorized or responsbile for 
warning the public about such events (not FEMA, not NASA, not ... not 
.... not). At best someone might pickup NAWAS and ring-down a few local 
counties, who wouldn't know what to do with the information.  Some 
scientists would probably tweet about it, because scientists are 
scientists.

As a technical matter, "CDW" would be the likely EAS event code if 
specific protective actions weren't included.  And either EVI or SPW as 
general purpose event codes when those protective actions are recommended.

BTW, the bureaucracy still hasn't figured out who is responsbile for 
warning the public about ICBMs, other than "not my agency."

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Robert Bunge wrote:
> " For the first time, astronomers at the University of Hawai?i have demonstrated that their ATLAS and Pan-STARRS survey telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid. They detected a small asteroid prior to its entering the Earth's atmosphere near Puerto Rico on the morning of June 22, 2019."
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> http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/ATLAS_2019MO/?fbclid=IwAR1yAmeqG-PlGpbB8ViZa59E0RceY5sJwBNo-BoyiWEun2NrqKbdysAVRHQ
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> Debris in atmosphere was observed by the NWS WSR-88D in San Juan.