Asteroid May Hit Earth March 21, 2014
AFP
Sept. 2, 2003 — British astronomers monitoring near-Earth objects said Tuesday there was a slim chance that a newly-discovered asteroid could hit Earth in March 2014.
The large rock — known as 2003 QQ47 — has a mass of around 2.6 billion tons, and is around two-thirds of a mile wide.
The possible collision on March 21, 2014, has been classified as "an event meriting careful monitoring" on the Torino scale, which rates the chances of newly discovered asteroids and comets hitting the Earth.
On impact it would be travelling at 75,000 miles per hour.
But astronomers say the probability of such a collision was just one in 909,000, and while they could make an educated guess as to the day of impact, they could not reckon exactly where it would be.

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