Last week we wrote that a German school boy had found an error in NASA’s Apophis calculations and come up with much higher impact probability. German Nico Marquardt calculated Apophis impact probability to 1/450 while NASA estimated it to be 1/45.000. Current understanding is that Nico Marquardt’s calculation is not valid and this …

Only a 13-year-old school boy found an error in NASA’s calculation and came up with much larger probability for the killer-asteroid Apophis to strike the Earth. According to NASA Apophis has 1/45.000 probability to strike the Earth. 13 years old Nico Marquardt noticed an error in NASA’s calculation and corrected it to staggering …