http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/03/whew-earth-surv.html



An asteroid with a diameter estimated at up to half the length of a football field buzzed within 50,000 miles of Earth, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says.

Monday's astronomical close call involved the asteroid affectionately named 2009 DD45, which is about the same size as one that exploded over Siberia in 1908. That blast leveled more than 800 square miles of forest, The Planetary Society reports.

2009 DD45 got to about twice the height of some telecommunications satellites and about one-fifth as far away as the Moon.

At its closest point the asteroid passed over the Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.

Yikes.

Read about that, also read they say it'll likely be captured or deflected by our gravity field and might be brought in closer.

Maybe it would hit just the "right" spot?!!!

Tahiti...what do have against Tahiti? ;)

Well, if it hits South America, Chavez will blame the U.S.

If it hits in the Middle East, Ahmanutjob will blame the U.S.

If it hits near Russia or North Korea, they will blame the U.S.

If it hits in the U.S. Hannity and Limbaugh will blame Clinton and Obama, and Mathews and Olberman(sp) will blame Dubya and Limbaugh and Hannity.

We have come along way, since the last asteroid collision. :rolleyes:

Thats right, Obamas been in office for a good six weeks now and done nothing to counter stellar based extinction. change my ass.

really things like this happen alot more than i ever wanna think about. i prefer to live life a blissfully ignorant little insect. honestly if astronemers do spot a planet killer i'd rather they just keep quite.

We did it to ourselves!

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/do_we_really_want_another_black

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/37880844.html