[SunkenCiv]

It's true, Torino scale 4 now.

2004 MN4 Impact Risk
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html

[tortoise]

The impact odds have just increased to 1:43 based on the last days worth of observation and orbital analysis refinement. It is generating quite a bit of traffic on the NEO lists. We still do not have a handle on exactly how big the thing is and they are trying to get as many data points as possible from the everyone who can track this thing with precision gear.

What is remarkable is that the media makes a big story out of tiny rocks that come nowhere close to impacting the earth on a regular basis, and yet here is a rock the size of a small mountain with a real possibility of impact and the media hasn't said a word. I'd think they would be loving this.