[SunkenCiv]

Gotta keep watching though, it fell to zero once before. The "news" page on the NEO site has an article from the 27th stating that the risk had fallen to zero. Then the number rose again to "1".

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

The one potential impactor that is known won't reach the rendezvous for about 880 years; they don't have that on the main page of close-call objects, keeping it on a page of its own.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/1950da/

[SunkenCiv]

regarding Asteroid 1950 DA:

Asteroid Could Hit in 878 Years
Newsday ^ | 4/4/02 | Paul Recer
Posted on 04/04/2002 10:30:58 AM PST by areafiftyone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/659642/posts

Giant Asteroid May Strike Earth in 2880
The strike may generate tsunamis up to 122 meters high
Pravda ^ | 06/11/03 | Staff Writer
Posted on 06/16/2003 6:55:33 AM PDT by bedolido
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929818/posts

Massive Tsunami Sweeps Atlantic Coast In Asteroid Impact Scenario (Surf's Up)
UC Santa Cruz Press Release ^ | May 27, 2003 | UC Santa Cruz Press Release
Posted on 05/29/2003 9:57:14 AM PDT by Mike Darancette
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/919723/posts

Worrying About The Next Big Splash
Casa Grande Dispatch ^ | 11 June 2003 | Alan Levine
Posted on 06/17/2003 8:01:59 AM PDT by Mike Darancette
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930513/posts

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'm down wid 1950DA. The NEO page only list objects for which there is a collision risk in the next 100 years. In fact, the entire NEO project is only authorized to gaze 100 years into the future. It is only 400 years since Kepler, and 317 years since Summa Mathematica, so worring about an asteriod collision 880 years hence is a bit premature.

Of course, I'm sure those far-sighted ur-o-peens are already on the case, unlike that cowboy, Bush.