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Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032

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NASA says chance that asteroid will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent .

The drop in odds had been widely anticipated by the global astronomical community.

The European Space Agency's separate calculations plunged to 1.38 percent .

For more than 24 hours , the asteroid did have the highest probability of hitting Earth -- 3.1 percent -- in modern forecasting.

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