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Asteroid's Chances Of Impacting Earth In 2040 Slim, NASA Says
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com An asteroid about the size of a football stadium may slightly have a chance of impacting Earth in 2040, but new estimates show it's hardly a threat. The space rock, measuring about 460-feet in size, has a likelihood of missing Earth greater than 99 percent, according to the recent findings by scientists at a May 29 workshop at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "While there is general consensus there is only a very small chance that we could be dealing with a real impact scenario for...
Published By: RedOrbit.com: Space - Saturday, 16 June, 2012
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