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| | Wired News: Asteroid, Inbound, 2044 AD |
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 | | An amateur astronomer's backyard observations have helped researchers calculate that an asteroid is headed this way, and could pass Earth even closer than the moon. |
 | | "1999 AN10 is about half a mile in size and the probability is 1 in 500,000 that it will collide with the Earth in 2044," said Dr. Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC), a clearinghouse for data about asteroids and comets traveling through the solar system. |
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