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There’s a 98% chance a massive asteroid won’t hit Earth in 8 years. But a slim chance it will

There’s a 98% chance a massive asteroid won’t hit Earth in 8 years. But a slim chance it will

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth in eight years. Still, there's up to a two per cent chance it will, according to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

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