German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA

[PsyOps]

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures

BERLIN (AFP) - A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.

NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizzkid had got it right.

The schoolboy took into consideration the risk of Apophis running into one or more of the 40,000 satellites orbiting Earth during its path close to the planet on April 13 2029.

Pretty embarrassing.

The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying both coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies indefinitely.

 

[C6R_Mag]

i read that on CNN. lol

 

[GWguy]

during its path close to the planet on April 13 2029.

With any luck, I'll be dead by then anyway.

 

[czygvtwkr]

Turns out this is not true.

I was wondering how a satellite could deflect an asteroid that was big enough to cause severe damage to life on earth as we know it. If a satellite could do this then it would be fairly easy to deflect it on purpose.

 

[butterfly08]

Yahoo! Buzz

Yea it's not true...

 

[Dougstermd]

Turns out this is not true.

I was wondering how a satellite could deflect an asteroid that was big enough to cause severe damage to life on earth as we know it. If a satellite could do this then it would be fairly easy to deflect it on purpose.

Well DUH.

didn't you watch the movie Armagedon you just have to fly two space shuttles up there and land them. Then drill a couple little holes and blast the thing apart

 

[Lenny]

With any luck, I'll be dead by then anyway.

That's about the time of the new ice age, right?

 

[LordStanley]

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures



Pretty embarrassing.

then screw this global warming crap. If we are all gonna die in a few years, let party like its 2029...

 

[huntr1]

With any luck, I'll be dead by then anyway.

I'll still be working.

 

[HouseCat]

Makes you wonder if NASA published the error purposely to keep public concern down. I smell conspiracy!


...true or not...I don't care. Not much we can do anyway.

 

[blazinlow89]

What are you all worried about, remember the world will end on Dec 22, 2011.

 

[Dukesdad]

What are you all worried about, remember the world will end on Dec 22, 2011.

December 21st 2012

 

[godsbutterfly]

December 21st 2012

Yeah, my stepson was talking about this. Actually he was kind of trying to use it as a way to say his homework wasn't all that important because he will barely have time to graduate before the world ends anyway!

 

[blazinlow89]

December 21st 2012

Ok i had the 2 and a 1 in the wrong spot.