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    Default Asteroid!

    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

    This asteroid has 1.6% chance of smashing into the Earth in 2029, it's also got a four on the Torino scale.

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    http://science.slashdot.org/science/...160&tid=14

    Probability is up to about 2.5% chance of impact now.

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    We also have a huge , much larger chance of getting nuked, mass death from disease ect :) Can't fight the inevitable though! ( if it is) Interesting thing to watch though

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    Don Yeomans, Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas
    NASA's Near Earth Object Program Office
    December 27, 2004

    Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These efforts proved successful today when Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, were able to detect and measure very faint images of asteroid 2004 MN4 on archival images dating to 15 March 2004. These observations extended the observed time interval for this asteroid by three months allowing an improvement in its orbit so that an Earth impact on 13 April 2029 can now be ruled out.

    As is often the case, the possibility of future Earth impacts for some near-Earth objects cannot be entirely ruled out until the uncertainties associated with their trajectories are reduced as a result of either future position observations, or in this case, heretofore unrecognized, pre-discovery observations. When these additional observations were used to update the orbit of 2004 MN4, the uncertainties associated with this object's future positions in space were reduced to such an extent that none of the object's possible trajectories can impact the Earth (or Moon) in 2029.
    Klaus Wulfenbach
    Mithril Council, Chaos
    "Death is fleeting. Pride is forever."


    "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."-- Abraham Lincoln

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