Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1 per cent
This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon.“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 per cent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.”
Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which is currently heading away from Earth. As the asteroid’s path around the sun becomes better understood, Chodas and others said there’s a good chance the risk to Earth could drop to zero. The asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day – passing within roughly 500,000 miles of Earth, about twice the distance of the moon. It was discovered two days later.
If scientists can find the space rock in images from then, they should be able to determine whether it will hit or miss the planet, he told the Associated Press. “If we don’t find that detection, the impact probability will just move slowly as we add more observations,” he said.
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