YU55 close encounter (8-Nov-2011)

[Spanrz]

NASA says "no cause for alarm"... Until a hundred years or so, then panic... LOL!

http://www.universetoday.com/85360/take-a-look-huge-asteroid-to-fly-by-earth-in-november/

[DavidU]

Yeh, I was reading about this a few minutes ago, the NASA quote for possible impact in 100 years got me.

[[1ponders]]

Luckily the western Australian is adding a bit of colour and informational license to the story.http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/9327430/giant-asteroid-to-hurtle-past-earth/

"With a width of some 400m and weighing 55 million tons, YU55 will be the largest object to ever approach Earth."" :doh: