Captain Dave Saves the World Again!

NASA tweaks killer asteroid's trajectory of death!

"NASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and
concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-
busting readiness.
.......

Chesley said: "Updated computational techniques and newly available
data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036,
for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a
million."

The pair got the majority of their new data from Dave Tholen and chums
at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy in Manoa. Tholen
scanned "hundreds of previously unreleased images of the night sky"
captured by the observatory's 88-inch telescope and made "improved
measurements of the asteroid's position in the images"."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10..._calculations/

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