Wonder German School Boy
‘NASA corrects its estimate on the findings of a 13-year old German school boy’ are the news reported in the newspaper. The details are as under: NASA had estimated the chances of the Apophis asteroid’s collusion with Earth at 1 in 45,000. The message was shared with its sister organization – viz. European Space Agency. Nico Marquardt , the 13 year old school boy, used telescope findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam to calculate the estimate. The school boy took into consideration the risk of Apophis running into one or more of the 40,000 satellites orbiting Earth during its path on April 13, 2029. The Apophis asteroid will pass by earth at a distance of 32,500 kilometres. With these findings, the boy estimated that the chances of collusion of a Apophis asteroid with the earth should be a 1 in 450 chances and not a 1 in 45,000 as estimated by the NASA. NASA had acknowledged that the boy had it right! - Source: The Times of India