[meteorite-list] Asteroid 2002 NT7: No Longer An Impact Risk

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:04 2004
Message-ID: <200208011725.KAA20795_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Asteroid 2002 NT7 Removed from IMPACT RISKS page
Don Yeomans
Manager, Near-Earth Object Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 1, 2002

Recent positional observations of asteroid 2002 NT7 have been used to
update and improve this object's orbit and as a result, all possibilities
for an Earth impact in the next 100 years have been eliminated. This
object's orbit, along with the orbits of all near-Earth objects, will be
improved continuously as additional observations become available. When
the orbital information is sufficiently accurate, the future orbital
extrapolations of these near-Earth objects will be carried out for more
than 100 years.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov
Received on Thu 01 Aug 2002 01:25:04 PM PDT