That's a 99.98 per cent chance that the asteroid will miss Earth, according to NASA.
Yet the remote chance of catastrophe has set some great minds to thinking about how to divert this celestial body.
In Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, two NASA astronauts present their idea: deploying "asteroid tractor" -- an unmanned, 20-ton spacecraft that uses gravity to pull an asteroid gently into a new, non-threatening orbit.
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Hi Mac -
I can't help but think of the "Butterfly effect" when this comes up. Imagine that we successfully move the asteroid and it is no threat to Earth...but then some years from now IT's new course causes it to get smacked by something bigger which then gets deflected into a collision course with earth? Perhaps moving things around out there could have dire though unintended consequences on the "order of things". :)
Kyle
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