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Schoolboy corrects NASA 'killer asteroid' maths

theage.com.au — A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth. NASA had previously estimated the chances at only one in 45,000 but admitted to the European Space Agency that the young whizzkid had got it right, estimating the chances at one in 450!

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  • peterkillion, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Correction to your correction - NASA are right, and obnoxious know it all kid is wrong !
    Where did The Age get the story that the kid was right? Wasnt from NASA - they said all along that this kid was wrong.
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