I wonder whether this will make the paper's tomorrow.
The New Scientist is reporting that
an asteroid that had initially been deemed harmless has turned out to have a slim chance of hitting Earth in 160 years.
As the article points out
new calculations show a 1 in 1400 chance that it will strike Earth between 2169 and 2199, with an estimated diameter of 560 metres, 1999 RQ36 is more than twice the size of the better-known asteroid Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth in 2036 . Both are large enough to unleash devastating tsunamis if they were to smash into the ocean.
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