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Mars could be hit
Don't know if this has already been posted here at IIS???
But found this while trawling the science 'Wires' at work today:
Mars could be in for an asteroid hit.
US scientists says a newly discovered hunk of space rock has a one in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on January 30.
NASA astronomer .. STEVE CHESLEY says these odds are extremely unusual.
CHESLEY says they know the asteroid will most likely miss mars but there is a possibility of impact.
The asteroid .. known as 2007 WD5 .. was discovered in late November and is similar in size to the Tunguska object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908 .. unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb that wiped out 60 million trees.
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