German Boy Corrects NASA's Asteroid Doom Odds
Category: General NewsPosted: April 16, 2008 06:30AM
Author: razor
Over the years, NASA has made an incalculable number of advances in space technology and research, and those contributions have sometimes made life better for the world - but it appears that NASA might want to consider outsourcing its advanced doom calculations. A 13 year old German kid corrected an erroneous calculation made by NASA that was to determine the likelihood of a killer asteroid impacting the Earth. Apophis, the asteroid of death, is scheduled in April 2029 to orbit our planet in such a fashion that it might impact one of the 40,000 satellites currently hanging around up in space - and if Apophis does strike one of those satellites, Germany's little doom prophet calculated that it has a 1 in 450 chance of colliding with our planet on its next orbit in 2036. NASA incorrectly put the odds at 1 in 45,000.
