The asteroid of 'uncertain orbit' that REALLY could smash into Earth, according to NASA

express.co.uk ^ | February 28, 2016 | Jon Austin

[rdl6989]

AN ASTEROID set for a staggering close whistle past of Earth in just 10 days could return to strike the planet as early as next year, NASA has admitted.

We are expected to be risk free when the space rock hurtles past us at as close as 11,000 miles away - 21 times closer to us than the moon - on March 8.

But the US space agency cannot yet be 100 per cent certain about its orbital path.

NASA gives near-Earth asteroid a condition code regarding the certainty of its travel from one to 10, with the latter meaning least certainty.

[Bogie]

Yeah, Apollo asteroids all over the place.

[beaversmom]

Please hit! Please hit! So I don’t have to hear about this godforsaken election any longer.

[Bogie]

Well yeah! It will get rid of Allah Akbar too.

[beaversmom]

It would do that, too! See, there are bright sides to everything if you just look!

[Smokin' Joe]

If that was the case, you’d think there would be a lot less of it.

[Bogie]

It is the greatest of pleasures to hear from an optimist such as yourself, at this forum.

Cheers!

[Slings and Arrows]

Sweet Meteor O’ Death!

[Toddsterpatriot]

Gahhh...do they do that just to annoy me??

They could be at least 21 times less annoying.

[doug from upland]

or Chappaqua

[doug from upland]

But people win lotteries several times a week. :)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

For each individual the odds are millions to one.

There is only one Earth, so the odds are millions to one.

If there were millions of Earths, some of them would be hit several times a week.

[bgill]

If Hellary is POTUS, bring it on.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Different asteroid. I doubt firing a missile at an steroid would work. Even if it were hit, the asteroid in the article is over 300 meters across. It’s not going to make much difference.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Well it did break some windows and send some people to the hospital with cuts.

[Don W]

I can’t believe someone else here read that book.

It’s the SECOND explosion that matters! LOL.

[Toddsterpatriot]

It’s the SECOND explosion that matters!

I don't remember that in either book.

[doug from upland]

I understand probability. It was just an attempt at a little humor.

[Hot Tabasco]

If you happen to live in the calculated strike zone, take a vacation to the other side of the planet.......

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sorry.

[Don W]

When they were launching the nuclear warship: The first boom got them off the ground, the second one was the proof of concept that allowed the ship to to actually fly and fight.