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Falling Space Rocks!
Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 | Posted By: Dennis
According to this article at the BBC News astronomers predict a near Earth asteroid impact on 1 February, 2019.
"Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value. "
It makes an orbit around the sun every 2.2 years so more will be known before the impact date.
Related Web URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2147879.stm
