Mars Impact Chances Rise – A Teeny Bit
Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near Mars: Impact Chances Now 1 in 25, JPL
“Updated Dec. 28, 2007 — Astronomers have identified asteroid 2007 WD 5 in archival imagery. With these new observations, scientists at NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif have refined their trajectory estimates for the asteroid. Based on this latest analysis, the odds for the asteroid impacting Mars on Jan. 30 are now 1-in-25 — or about 4 percent.”
