Scientists reported yesterday the discovery of a new asteroid that is on a possible collision with Mars .They claim there is a 1-75 percent chance that the asteroid will strike Mars on January 30 , 2008 , or miss it by a mere 30,000 miles . By comparison our moon at its closest is only 180,000 miles away . Scientists also theorize that should this asteroid strike the surface it would explode with the force of a 15 megaton bomb and leave a crater a half mile long . This scientist say would be similar to what happened in 1908 in central Siberia at Tunguska where an asteroid or comet exploded in midair with the same kind of force . It devastated the region flattening trees for over a hundred miles in diameter . Currently its between Earth and Mars , approaching the red planet at 28,000 mph .
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Do you think we will get some good observational analysis of this event, and what is NASA saying?
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