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Another Asteroid with Earth Impact Probability Discovered
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Another Asteroid with Earth Impact Probability Discovered
SpaceViews
June 9, 1999
For the third time in a little over a
year, astronomers have found an asteroid
that has a very small, but non-zero,
probability of impacting the Earth next
century.
Italian astronomer Andrea Milani and
colleagues reported the impact
probability at the end of the IMPACT
conference in Torino, Italy, earlier this
month. They found that 1998 OX4,
discovered last year at the Spacewatch
telescope in Arizona, has a 1-in-10
million chance of hitting the Earth in
January 2046.
Full story here:
http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/06/09a.html
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