Thread: 2012 asteroid?
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Old 04-October-2004, 08:13 AM
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Since I'm about to go to bed my thinking is likely a little suspect --

But it strikes me that the uncertainty of orbit expressed by "somewhere between 2011 and 2013" is many magnitudes greater then the uncertainty of hitting the rather small target of Earth. Basically, until they nail that crossing down to a window that's measured in minutes I wouldn't worry much about the chances of it impacting.