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German Geek Predicts Doomsday
| Quote From Source: | When a 13-year-old German schoolboy spotted a miscalculation by US space agency NASA, he worked out that the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. It's just as well he was wrong.
After news of this David and Goliath tale spread around the world, NASA brought the international media back to earth with a bump on Wednesday when it issued a statement says the whiz kid was wrong.
The agency said its figures are correct when it comes to the asteroid Apophis, not the boy's.
"We stand by our numbers," NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown told AFP.
The Near-Earth Object Program Office "has not changed its current estimates for the very low probability (1 in 45,000) of an Earth impact by the asteroid Apophis in 2036...
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posted on 4/20/2008 at 05:12
