We're all gonna die

[chriscdc]

Ok not quite.<br /><br />http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9095-big-new-asteroid-has-slim-chance-of-hitting-earth.html<br /><br />Ok it probably won't hit but if it does then it will only be 2 years away.<br />It's 800m across and so will make quite a large bang/crater.<br />

 

[telfrow]

... <br />Link<br /><br /><i>Edited to include link.</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[alienhunter]

Only bad news if you loaned a lot of money from the mafia: <br /><br />Update 5 May 2006: The newly discovered asteroid 2006 HZ51 has now been removed from NASA-JPL's list of potentially hazardous objects. The Earth is now safe from that particular threat, which was never anything more than a long-shot with odds of only one in six million. As explained in the original story (below), astronomers assumed that further observations would rule out any danger for the next century at least - and that is indeed what happened.<br /><br />new link: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2006%20HZ51<br /><br />Still scary all big rocks are not found yet.