Don't panic - an asteroid is not set to wipe out the Earth in 2880

Monday, August 18, 2014 - 03:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

You might have seen news stories about an asteroid called 1950 DA that supposedly has a one in 300 chance of impacting the Earth in 2880. They are all kinds of wrong, and here's why.

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