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Nico Marquardt
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... [more]
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.
Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields.
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coondoggie writes "NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid known as Apophis and now say it has only a very slim chance of banging into Earth.. The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields and updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million...
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Pasadena, California -- Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena...
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