[WL-law]

Riddle me this -- how can the earth's gravity "repel" the asteroid -- an object with mass, BTW -- as this story states?

[AppyPappy]

The same way that water can swallow a stone but you can skip a stone across water.

[WIladyconservative]

Riddle me this -- how can the earth's gravity "repel" the asteroid -- an object with mass, BTW -- as this story states?

That was my main question, too, but ya beat me to it! I thought gravity basically . . .well. . . . sucked!