[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.

[PatrickHenry]

I dimly recall an old SF story in one of the pulp magazines, about a guy who devoted all his time to computing orbits of objects like this asteroid, and he had a bunch of cannon balls in his cellar. After doing his calculations, he would roll one of the balls a few feet, and then declare that by this tiny movement, he had deflected a comet's collision with the earth, which he had calculated would happpen in around 200 years. Then he would return to his equations to work out another orbit, etc. I have no recollection of how the story ended. Maybe we owe this "near miss" to his efforts.