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Source: The Huffington Post
Astronomers in Ukraine say a deadly asteroid is likely to collide with the Earth in 2032.
According to a Russian news service, researchers at an observatory in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory think the space rock – said to be 1,345 feet wide – is on course to hit our planet on August 26, 19 years from now.
Or maybe not. Because the researchers also admit that the asteroid, named 2013 TV135, only has a one in 63,000 chance of actually hitting us.
“On the night of October 12, I was watching the Giraffe constellation, it was an in-depth monitoring as part of the comet search program,” Gennady Borisov from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory told Itar-Tass news agency. “This is when the asteroid… was discovered. The first observations show that it moves quickly and is relatively close.”
News site RT said that the discovery was currently being confirmed by British and Spanish researchers, and quoted Russian vice premier Dmitry Rogozin as saying:
“A 400-meter asteroid is threatening to blow up the Earth… Here is a super target for the national cosmonautics.”
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