Day: March 10, 2023

A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance” of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine’s Day in 2046, according to NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

The asteroid has a 1 in 625 chance of striking Earth, based on data projections from the European Space Agency, though NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Sentry system calculated the odds closer to 1 in 560. The latter tracks potential collisions with celestial objects.

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More than 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages from ministers across the Channel provide a unique insight into the British government’s approach to the corona pandemic. The then Secretary of Health, Matt Hancock, has come under particular fire. He told his employees that he “wanted to scare everyone with a new variant” in order to improve compliance with the corona measures. While he himself broke the rules during his affair with a close co-worker.