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rather than worrying about a known asteroid that only has a one in a million chance to hit us in eleven years, you should worry about some two thousand 'global killers' (kilometer and more in diameter) out there that we know absolutely nothing about (only about two hundred such bodies have so far been identified and their orbits analyzed). as many asteroid hunters would warn, there's currently a good chance that we would only notice an impacting body as it was rushing through our atmosphere, gradually becoming brighter and brighter, dwarfing even the sun moments before it wiped out most life on the planet. those that died immediately upon impact would probably be considered lucky...
[ 09-02-2003, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: frudi_x ]
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