No Earth impact in 2040: NASA releases workshop data and findings on asteroid 2011 AG5
Monday, June 18, 2012 - 19:31
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Observations to date indicate there is a slight chance that AG5 could impact Earth in 2040. Experts are now confident that in the next four years, analysis of space and ground-based observations will show the likelihood of 2011 AG5 missing Earth to be greater than 99 percent.