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NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk

Posted by timothy on from the elephant-detector-working-fine dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid known as Apophis and now say it has only a very slim chance of banging into Earth.. The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields, and updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036 for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million, NASA stated."

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  1. Re:Comparing different ratios... by erbbysam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But 1 million is such a large number that it couldn't possibly happen! They should have just used 22 in 1 million to begin with...