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And since Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of impacting Earth about 200 years from now, researchers figure it would be good to glean insights about the asteroid's fate — and how it might intersect with our own.
REXIS is a small (2.7kg), compact (~1 ft3 ) X-ray imaging camera with a ~30 deg field of view that will measure and image the X-ray lines (fluoresced by incident solar X-rays) which reveal the surface composition (O, Mg, Si, S, Fe, etc). of the Near-Earth asteroid, 1999RQ36, which has a ~1 in 1800 chance of impacting Earth in 2182!
The estimated probability of impacting Earth in future passages through the inner Solar System is remote, about 2.5×10−9 per orbit.
The 900-foot-wide (270-meter) asteroid is perhaps the most often cited as a potential candidate for impacting Earth sometime in the next few decades.
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The disease, which was mostly impacting Asia, has now become endemic and spread to the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Climate change is already negatively impacting China and is projected to grow in strength.
It's clear that climate change is already impacting Alaska.
Odessa and Pat would pass very close together with Ruby impacting Tokyo.
Forecasters at one point in time noted the possibility of the storm impacting California.
On 25 August 2012, recovery was hampered due to Tropical Storm Isaac impacting Haiti's southern peninsula.
By August 5, forecasters were discussing the possibility of the storm impacting Hawaii.
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