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Sep 14, 2021

NASA Upped the Chance of Asteroid Bennu Slamming Into Earth — Putting the Odds in Perspective

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

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Like Hitting a Bullseye With Your Eyes Closed Two statisticians put into perspective the chances of asteroid Bennu striking Earth in the next 300 years. Even Harry Stamper would probably like these odds. Recently NASA updated its forecast of the chances that the asteroid Bennu, one of the two most hazardous known objects in our solar system, will hit Earth in the next 300 years. New calculations put the odds at 1 in 1,750 a figure slightly higher than previously thought.

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