An asteroid the size of three football fields is scheduled
to zoom past Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, coming closer
to us than many telecommunications satellites in orbit. It
will be visible to the naked eye in several countries, but
it's not likely that a large space rock like this one will
actually hit the Earth, acccording to astronomer Perry
Gerakines, who says, "The odds that an asteroid of this
magnitude would impact the Earth are in the millions to one.
Some NASA scientists say a particular person's odds of being
affected by an asteroid collision is comparable to those of
being in a major airline accident" so the asteroid impact
that wiped out the dinosaurs was a major piece of bad luck.
Astronomer David Tholen was the first scientist to spot the
asteroid, using the University of Arizona's Bok telescope.
Six months later, the asteroid was spotted again in
Australia, and named "2004 MN4." Astronomers then began
using their computers to calculate how close the asteroid
will come to Earth, and whether it will impact the Earth or
fly by. At that time, they thought the likelihood of the
1,000-foot-wide stone hitting Earth was one chance in 38,
which is very high in astrological terms. Ominously enough,
the impact is due on Friday the 13th of 2029.
New calculations show the asteroid will miss us, but only by
about 15,000 to 25,000 miles, which is one-tenth the
distance from the Earth to the moon. What 2004 MN4 shows us
is that a catastrophic asteroid impact of the kind that
wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is not only
possible?it's probably inevitable that it will happen again
eventually.
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