Potentially hazardous asteroid might collide with the Earth in 2182
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 08:21
in Astronomy & Space
The potentially hazardous asteroid ‘(101955) 1999 RQ36’ has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth, and more than half of this probability indicates that this could happen in the year 2182, according to a new study. Knowing this fact may help design in advance mechanisms aimed at deviating the asteroid’s path.