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September 20, 2008

NASA was wrong?!

NASA has refuted claims that it has revised its asteroid predictions based on a correction made to them by a 13-year-old German student. The student, Nico Marquardt, claims there is a 1 in 450 chance the asteroid Apophis will hit the earth, not 1 in 45,000 as NASA calculates. The student's claim was based on the the likelihood of the asteroid hitting one of a bank of satellites orbiting the earth. NASA says there is no chance of this happening and their estimates remain 1 in 45,000, uninfluenced by the student's claims. "The asteroid will not pass near the main belt of geosynchronous satellites in 2029, and the chance of a collision with a satellite is exceedingly remote," NASA said in a statement. The agency says it has received no contact from Mr Marquardt.