It’s amazing how inaccurate stories can be circulated so fast on the web as valid news or buzz. The asteroid Apophis was originally reported on about three years ago, but just yesterday there were online rumors about the odds changing about it impacting the earth. I just got this emailed news statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NEWS RELEASE #2008-063 dated April 16, 2008:
NASA Statement on Student Asteroid Calculations
PASADENA, Calif. — The Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has not changed its current estimates for the very low probability (1 in 45,000) of [...]