NASA scientists say that a 100 foot wide asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of the Earth at 5:08 PM EST today. This is the closest documented encounter ever with a space rock. It will even be visible to Earthbound observers in the southern hemisphere through binoculars.
If the asteroid were to, in fact, strike the Earth, it would do substantial damage, though it wouldn't necessarily be a civilization-ending calamity. That responsibility falls to executives at Fox Television's entertainment division.
NASA scientists say there is absolutely no danger of a collision. These are presumably the same scientists who a few years caused the fiery demise of the Mars Polar Lander when they inadvertently used English calculations rather than metric.
Start screaming now.
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