LONDON – Britain’s top court refused Wednesday to stop the extradition to the U.S. of a British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers — something he claims to have done while hunting for information on UFOs.

Gary McKinnon, 42, faces charges in the United States for what officials say were a series of cyber attacks that stole passwords, attacked military networks and wrought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer damage.
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A 13-year-old schoolboy has challenged NASA’s calculations of a possible killer asteroid strike on the Earth in 30 years.

NASA had estimated there was a one in 45,000 chance that the asteroid Apophis will collide with the Earth.

But a young German schoolboy, Nico Marquardt, said it was a one in 450 chance, thereby changing the date the asteroid might hit.

The work has impressed the head astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Professor Fred Watson.
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