Hi All,
I can't seem to open the article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7760659.stm
but it seems most of the discussion is on saving Earth. Firstly we have to find these buggers if we are to deal with them.
Try observing some of the objects on this form and do your bit for our future.
http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/NEAObs
Once they are found and their orbits determined, I doubt if Hollywood would want to know.
So much money is spent on volcanoes, earthquakes and pridicting sunamis yet these are really localised problems compared with an asteroid strike.
Get to it and man those cameras and eyepieces, amateurs can make a difference!!