The probability that a newly-discovered asteroid will hit Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046 has dropped. The chance the asteroid hits the planet was already unlikely.
The European Space Agency said Tuesday that the chances aThis comes after NASA revealed the asteroid, called 2023 DW, could hit Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046, although the odds were already slim. The asteroid is estimated to be about the size of a 50-meter Olympic swimming pool.
The likelihood that the asteroid hits Earth is even less than the one in 847 previously believed, according to ESA's planetary defense office head Richard Moissl. He told Agence France-Presse, a news outlet in France, that the probability has dropped to one in 1,584."It will go down now with every observation until it reaches zero in a couple of days at the latest," Moissl said on Tuesday."No one needs to be worried about this guy.
"We tend to be a little more conservative, but it definitely appears to now have a downward trend in probability," NASA's planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson told the news outlet. Johnson added that new observations often drop the"uncertainty region" where the asteroid will reach its closest point to Earth.
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