Dallas says:

Thank you President Obama for saving us from the Asteroid.

title nave says:

“Even if they were to hit Earth, these two asteroids would disintegrate in the atmosphere,” he said. “We’d get a few meteorites out of them, but there wouldn’t be any damage to the ground.”

Yep … nearly killed….

soundwash says:

This asteroid non-story is being COMPLETELY “miss”-reported.

Both asteroids are (and have been) orbiting the sun, -not just “passing through.”

What they are not reporting is that both asteroids are following in the earth’s orbit, with RC12 almost exactly following the Earth orbit around the sun and crossing Earth’s orbit path *twice a year.*

-it also crosses our path around March 29th. The last March 29 “near earth” cycle was in 1987, 1988, 1989. The “Near Earth” approach cycle (0.027xau) for runs 3 years. 2009, 2010 and 2011

-Yes..next year at this time they *should* be ringing the “omgwtfbbq! an asteroid almost hit us again” bell. Have a look at the orbit path yourself.

Bottom line: This is a BIG NON-EVENT. Its nothing, zero, zip, nada. They have hundred of these cataloged.

In my opinion, they just wanted to add one more fear and hype item to reinstall the 9/11 “fear” campaign while giving the “omg, an asteroid! We’re all gonna die” meme a boost as well.

-that’s it.

Expect more random “omg someone farted on a plane” and other BS fear stories over the next few days..

Best way to control people is when they are scared shitless. Or at minimum, stressed to all hell. This works especially well on a scientifically ignorant populous like ours.

Like the old man said: “nothing to fear but fear itself”

-s
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