This "near miss" asteroid thingie seems to be a weekly occurrence lately. My guess is that it's been going on ever since Earth was formed, and that we're just now getting a grip on tracking the little beasties.
Either way, if one hits then there ain't nothin' we can do about it, and whatever critter inherits the Earth afterwards will be putting the oil from our fossiled corpses into their SUV's .....
The Lord is warning us.
My guess is we are getting ready to get swarms of them. Some small (air bursts) larger ones will hit the ground/sea. I always figured history was full of multiple strikes over relatively short periods of time. It’s why we global resets in archeological records.
I was outside my country cabin in Hardy Co., West Virginia on Friday 9/17/21 when there was an extremely loud KABOOOOM. It sounded like someone had made a large dynomite explosion the other side of the mountain. I thought maybe road building rock cut demolition. The next day there was a community meeting, and everyone who was there Friday was commenting on the loud explosion. Then someone reported that apparently a small meteor had targeted Hardy Co., but they didn’t know if any pieces had landed. So the subject asteroid passed us the day before the one I heard. I wonder if it was part of a swarm.
I thing the Barringer Crater in AZ is a half mile across and hit 50,000 ya.