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Schoolboy Corrects NASA’s Math On Killer Asteroid
spiracle writes “a german schoolboy, nico marquardt, has revised nasa’s figures for the chances that the apophis asteroid will hit earth. superficially if the asteroid hits a satellite in 2029, its path could be diverted enough to cause it to collide with earth on the next orbit, in 2036. nasa had calculated the chances as 1 in 45,000 but the 13-year-old, in his science project, made it 1 in 450. nasa agreed.”
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