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	<title><![CDATA[Chances You'll Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2009]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/chances-youll-be-killed-b_b_154138.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/27/watch-if-an-asteroid-hit_n_153724.html">A computer video</a> circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance that such an asteroid will impact Earth in the next year. </p>

<p>It is 1 in 2,518,072</p>

<p>This number is derived from <a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/">NASA calculations</a> of the likelihood of a strike by any one of the six substantial Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) whose current course could intersect our planet's in...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-01-30T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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