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Comment Current estimates (Score 0) 244

I love how they never take the time to point out that A LOT can happen to that thing's trajectory to change the +/- .00001 % error required for it to smack head on into the earth. Yet they're willing to toss out numbers like 4 in a million.

We don't know enough about "near earth objects" much less about "near Apophis objects" to make those kinds of predictions that far in advance.

Guess if it makes the folks back home feel better...

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