[PatrickHenry]

Just found this on Drudge: Asteroid to miss - this time around .

[RightWhale]

If they have to nudge an asteroid so it misses, fine. But funny thing, asteroids keep going around the sun and come back again. This could get expensive. Best capture the asteroid the first time and be done with it. And then use it for a source of raw materials to make things.

[Scully]

This is because no past observations - that could be used to pinpoint its trajectory - have been found in astronomical archives. This is because the asteroid's unusual orbit takes it into regions of space that are seldom surveyed,/p>

Wait a tick...they have only ONE data point and they have already decided we're in the clear???

[VadeRetro]

Dr Yeomans added: "While we cannot completely rule out an impact possibility for 1 February 2060, it seems very likely that this possibility will soon be ruled out as well."

I'll be 110 on 1 Feb, 2060. If it doesn't get me then, it probably won't get me.