Thursday, December 14, 2006

One More Off The Risk-List

In case any of you are anxious about an earth-collision with asteroids, you will be relieved to here that one more has been found to be not a risk:
http://space.about.com/cs/asteroids/a/asteroidimpact.htm

Update
It appears that we dodged a bullet this time with asteroid 2002 NT7. NASA's Near Earth Object Program released this statement:

"With the processing of a few more observations of asteroid 2002 NT7 through July 28, we can now rule out any Earth impact possibilities for February 1, 2019. While we cannot yet completely rule out an impact possibility on February 1, 2060, it seems very likely that this possibility will be soon ruled out as well as additional positional observations are processed.

..."An object of this size would be expected to hit the Earth every few million years,”...

1 comment :

Anonymous said...

I wish you youngers good luck in 2060! Better be sure your affairs are in order -- you know, everything straight with your Maker and all that.

I'll just worry about 2019 -- maybe not even then!!

Grumpy