the brief fame of 2003 QO104

Current asteroid impact risk. These tables interested me less for of the warning they carry than for the way they present data. I had wondered how astronomers reckon impact probabilities, and these tables present it neatly. (Explanations at the foot of each page.)

This entry originally linked to the data for asteroid 2003 QO104, whose threat has since been reduced to negligible by further measurements of its orbit.

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