[SunkenCiv]

2020 ND:

Asteroid Bigger Than Statue of Liberty is Heading Toward Earth [Credit: NASA/ESA]

[Rastus]

It could have at least knocked out CNN.

[dynachrome]

“Lucifer’s Hammer” by Larry Niven is till a good read about earth getting bombarded by space rocks.

[fhayek]

A “near miss” has another name. A complete miss....

[MyDogAteMyBallot]

actually, I think I would prefer this end to the “death of a thousand cuts” of permanent democrat rule...

[dangus]

26,000 miles? That’s a small fraction of the lunar orbit! That’s somewhere near the geosynchronous orbit, IIRC!!!

[alexander_busek]

The asteroid, which measures under 10 feet, was discovered on [...]

Should always be the first line of any article about Near Earth Asteroids, fly-bys, and the like.

Regards,