Asteroid to hit Earth in 17 years

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space rock 'on collision course'

A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019, although the uncertainties are large.

Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value.

From its brightness astronomers estimate it is about 2km wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.

According to the Palermo scale, a 0.6 rating means this is 4 times more likely to occur than a random background event occurring in the intervening years.

And here I thought I had all the way until Nov 2, 2048 (deathclock.com).

Posted by Robert at July 23, 2002 10:16 PM | TrackBack