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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Scientists call for plans to change course of Asteroid Heading toward Earth

It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time. Scientists are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

If the asteroid does not hit the Earth on time, then we are going to have to fix the year 2038 bug.



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