"No Earth impact is possible, " according to Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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"The meteor was probably about the size of an SUV, " said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif.

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"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years, " said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office, in a statement.

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It's hard to predict exactly how bright Pan-STARRS will be, but you should be able to see it without binoculars or telescopes, said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program.

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"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average, " Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said last week.

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"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average, " said Paul Chodas, of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

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To date, balloon-borne activities have centered around heliophysics and astrophysics that have not required precision-pointing, says Near-Earth Object (NEO) program officer Rob Landis at NASA headquarters.

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