Got Plans For Sept. 24, 2182? This Big Asteroid Might, Too
A NASA mission to a potentially dangerous asteroid has let researchers map out its future trajectory like never before.
A potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu has a 1 in 1,750 chance of hitting Earth between now and the year 2300.
That's according to the most precise calculations of an asteroid's trajectory ever made, and the odds are slightly worse than NASA previously thought.
Still, the researchers studying Bennu say this doesn't keep them up at night.
"The impact probability went up just a little bit, but it's not a at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
