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| | SPACE.com -- Whew! Asteroid Won't Hit Earth in 2029, Scientists Now Say |
 | | The giant space rock, named 2004 MN4, was said on Dec. 23 to have an outside shot at hitting the planet on April 13, 2029. |
 | | "An Earth impact on April 13, 2029 can now be ruled out," read a statement issued Monday evening by asteroid experts Don Yeomans, Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
 | | It is not the first time a potentially threatening asteroid has been theoretically defused by looking into the past, pointed out Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute. |
| www.space.com /scienceastronomy/asteroid_update_B_041227.html (576 words) |
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