Asteroid to strike earth on February 1 , 2019.

Astronomers have found an asteroid that appears to be on a collision course with Earth. It has been described as the most threatening object yet detected in space. A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 could strike the planet on February 1, 2019. The BBC reports astronomers have given NT7 a threat rating on the Palermo technical scale of 0.06, making it the first object to be given a positive value. Although they say it merits attention, they expect more observations to show it is not on an Earth-intersecting trajectory. The asteroid is estimated to be about two kilometres wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth. It was first seen on the night of July 5 by the Linear Observatory's automated sky survey programme in New Mexico. Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University, told BBC News Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/default.stm "This asteroid has now become the most threatening object in the short history of asteroid detection." But he added: "This unique event should not diminish the fact that additional observations in coming weeks will almost certainly - we hope - eliminate the current threat." Dr Donald Yeomans, from the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said: "The error in our knowledge of where NT7 will be on February 1, 2019, is large, several tens of millions of kilometres."

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