Sounds bizarre, NASA figures showing the chance of an asteroid strike being shown up by a boy's school project, but that was the claim made by a German newspaper. NASA seems to be taking it seriously. While they calculate, they still haven't worked how to argue with an asteroid that has made it's mind up. NASA also claim the boys figures relate to a single asteroid hit on a satellite in 2029.
Looks like they both had the same answer with their decimal points in different places.
Did one of them forget how many significant figures they were using ?

From the figures it looks like they both

The Bush budgets have cut funding to the huge Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the world's premiere station for tracking asteroids. It seems that, once again, Mr. Bush with his dazzzling scientific expertise has trumped real science, just as he did with global warming.