Hello,

While some might argue that the movies "Deep Impact" and "Armegeddon" may be science fiction, I do think the threat is real that some rock out there could come and hit us. I also find it disturbing that if you are younger than 30 years of age, you were not *alive* when the last man walked on the moon.

I can only wonder what kind of job creation possibilities we could have here in the US if we got the Space program off the ground, and returned to the moon, or worked to design a system to protect the fragile Earth from devistating encounters.

I suppose we have to stop fighting ourselves in the Middle East, eh?

Christian

More complete and up to date info....

With the processing of a few more observations of asteroid 2002 NT7 through July 28, we can now rule out any Earth impact possibilities for February 1, 2019. While we cannot yet completely rule out an impact possibility on February 1, 2060, it seems very likely that this possibility will be soon ruled out as well as additional positional observations are processed. Because the SENTRY system tracks a multitude of test particles in an effort to map the uncertainties of the asteroid's future positions, some of these test particles can take slightly different dynamical paths. Hence there are currently two entries for 2060 in our IMPACT RISK table. The entry with the higher risk (larger Palermo Technical Scale) would be the value that would then take precedence.

by 2060, I will be worm food...

55 years in advance... the trajectory might change. I think its a bit too soon for the entire world to panic. Let the scientists worry about that right now.

Let the scientists worry about it till the moment it hits I reckon. I sure as shit won't be worrying about it afterwards!

This MIGHT also apply to you my friend. And I'll be old (75).

Catweazle is immortal. Until that bloody big rock hits, anyway

I don't believe anything those people say. They can't predict the end of the world.

Let's see...

2060 would make me 107...

Bring on the rock...
If I am still here I will be more than ready to check out...

lol

"Lets go to where it will land. That will be a show!!!"

It must truely be cool though... for a couple of seconds before it hits ground. Then youre toast.