60-meter (197-feet) asteroid has a good chance of colliding with Earth

[Bring4th_Austin]

http://rt.com/news/paint-asteroid-earth-nasa-767/

NASA confirms the 60-meter (197-feet) asteroid, spotted by Spanish stargazers in February, has a good chance of colliding with Earth in eleven months.

The rock's closest approach to the planet is scheduled for February 15, 2013, when the distance between the planet and space wanderer will be under 27,000 km (16,700 miles). This is lower than the geosynchronous orbit kept by the Google Maps satellite.

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“The asteroid may split into pieces entering the atmosphere. In this case, most part of it will never reach the planet’s surface,” remarks Dunham.
But if the entire asteroid is to crash into the planet, the impact will be as hard as in the Tunguska blast, which in 1908 knocked down trees over a total area of 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles) in Siberia. This is almost the size of Luxembourg. In today’s case, the destination of the asteroid is yet to be determined.

[zenmaster]

It would be ironic if it was a chunk of Maldek and it hit a Bigfoot.

[Bring4th_Austin]

"In a massive explosion lies the stoppage of the wheel of action, or what you call karma."

[Parsons]

Lol Zen, then neither could be confirmed so the whole situation could be safely ignored by the general public.

As for the meteor... /shrug It certainly doesn't make me fearful.

[zenmaster]

But did NASA confirm it had a "good chance" of colliding with Earth?

For the tl;dr crowd, let’s get this out of the way right away: asteroid 2012 DA14 is almost certainly not going to hit the Earth next February. And by "almost certainly", I mean it: the odds of an impact are so low they are essentially zero. This does not rule out an impact at some future date, but for now we’re safe.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...next-year/

[drifting pages]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...next-year/

It will not hit because it is to fast, it would have to be travelling lower then 26.00 km altitude.

And even if it had fallen, it would only obliterate at maximum a big city(very unlikely this is a big planet in comparison), if it had fallen on the ocean the tsunami would be 30 cm high.... lol

[Bring4th_Austin]

But did NASA confirm it had a "good chance" of colliding with Earth?

For the tl;dr crowd, let’s get this out of the way right away: asteroid 2012 DA14 is almost certainly not going to hit the Earth next February. And by "almost certainly", I mean it: the odds of an impact are so low they are essentially zero. This does not rule out an impact at some future date, but for now we’re safe.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...next-year/

The article I posted seems to have been edited. My topic title was copy-pasted straight from the first paragraph, which now says "NASA's data shows the 60-meter asteroid, spotted by Spanish stargazers in February, will whistle by Earth in 11 months."

Sorry for the poor source guys.