German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures Is this meant to be good news, or what? Now the odds have improved considerably in the asteroid's favour. Not ours. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported. NASA had previously estimated the chances at ... Read full entry
Schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 to the comment subset
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