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NASA vs Schoolboy
Ouch! Despite the, one would imagine, significant resources of NASA, it appears that a 13-year-old German, Nico Marquardt, managed to run the numbers and come up with better numbers than NASA, and even NASA agrees.
Better numbers on what?
The short of it: Marquardt figured out that rather than a 1 in 45,000 chance of the Apophis asteroid running into the Earth, it is actually a 1 in 450 chance.
For more: “German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper.”
— michael | April 16, 2008 09:07 AM | Random bits
