Scientists say asteroid may hit Mars in late January (1 in 75 chance on Jan. 30, 2008) ^
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism ^ 12/20/2007 6:27:00 PM PST · 98 replies
ap on Examiner.com ^ | 12/20/07 | Alicia Chang - ap
LOS ANGELES (Map, News) - Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday. “These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids,” said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November and is similar in size to the Tunguska object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing...
I’ve got my fingers crossed.
So Bush has screwed up everything here on earth now Mars
I wonder if something like that would be enough to throw debris into orbit and damage satellites orbiting the planet.
I remember that! Now, it’s gone up quite a bit!
If we wake up next week and it’s one in 5, then we better get ready to send disaster assistance to the worms up there!
As the odds change, doesn’t that mean they are unsure of the path? Could Mars kick this little bugger enough so that it comes our way?