Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
A newly discovered asteroid has zero chance of colliding with Earth in 11 years, although preliminary data had suggested such a doomsday scenario was possible, astronomers said this week.
New data allowed a more refined projection of the orbit of the space rock, dubbed 2003 QQ47 -- ruling out more than a dozen possible strike dates, according to the Near Earth Objects Information Center.
Earlier this week, the U.K.-based asteroid-monitoring center posted a Web announcement stating that there was a remote chance the asteroid would hit our planet in 2014, possibly unleashing the energy equivalent of millions of nuclear bombs.
New data allowed a more refined projection of the orbit of the space rock, dubbed 2003 QQ47 -- ruling out more than a dozen possible strike dates, according to the Near Earth Objects Information Center.
Earlier this week, the U.K.-based asteroid-monitoring center posted a Web announcement stating that there was a remote chance the asteroid would hit our planet in 2014, possibly unleashing the energy equivalent of millions of nuclear bombs.
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