CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years.
The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.But don’t be alarmed: Scientists reported Wednesday that the odds are still quite low that Bennu will hit us in the next century."We shouldn't be worried about it too much," said Davide Farnocchia, a scientist with NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who served as the study's lead author.While the odds of a strike have risen from 1-in-2,700 to 1-in-1,750 over the next century or two, scientists now have a much better idea of Bennu's path.