Is Nico Marquardt smarter than NASA? Nico Marquardt is only 13 years old, yet he is making international headlines because of his calculations about the Apophis asteroid. Will the Apophis asteroid hit good ol' planet earth? Well, Nico Marquardt seems to think there is at least a chance.
It would appear that the intial article in the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten , which says that NASA and the ESA endorsed Nico Marquardt's calculations, was incorrect.
A German schoolboy, Nico Marquardt, has revised NASA’s figures for the chances that the Apophis asteroid will hit earth. Apparently if the asteroid hits a satellite in 2029, its ...