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123E-135-Future Impact Possibilities

Apr 06, 20212 min
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Episode description

Recently, three asteroids were discovered which have very slight probabilities of impact with planet Earth between 2065 and 2117. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey found two of them and the Pan-STARRS group in Hawaii found the other one. These three asteroids are some of the most recent objects to be listed on the NASA Sentry Risk Table. So far so good.
Maybe against the most incredible odds a small asteroid has our number on it.
Maybe we will find it tonight.
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