Berlin – I like numbers and statistics a lot, although I often make mistakes myself when I’m asked to calculate something. So I leave it to professionals to do the math for me. For example, that the asteroid Bennu could hit us on September 24, 2182. The probability is 0.037 percent, say astronomers. That thing is half a kilometer tall.
This has induced some media to produce headlines in the past few days such as “Asteroid Bennu: Researchers calculate impact date” (as if the event had already been determined) and “Impact on earth more likely than previously thought”.
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