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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		4/4/2002; 7:18:05 PM
Topic:		End of human life on March 16, 2880?
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End of human life on March 16, 2880? #

"Applying unprecedented refinements to the analysis of celestial hazards, NASA astronomers have identified a potential close encounter with Earth more than eight centuries in the future by an asteroid two-thirds of a mile (one kilometer) wide.

"What will most likely be a miss, even without preventive measures, will come on March 16, 2880, said Jon Giorgini, a senior engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Odds for a collision are at most one in 300, and probably even more remote, based on what is known about the asteroid so far. Still, that makes this space rock, named 1950 DA, a greater hazard than any other known asteroid."

Posted by Raymond Yee on 4/4/02; 7:18:26 PM
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