http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/18/tech/asteroid-near-pass/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 The space agency is 99.998% certain that when it whooshes back around the planet in 2032, it will simply sail past us again. Searching for all asteroid threats NASA asks public to hunt asteroids Meteorite pulled from Russian lake The probability of it striking Earth currently stands at 1:63,000, and even those odds are fading fast, as scientists find out more about the asteroid. “This is a relatively new discovery,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s NEO Program. “With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future.” 2013 TV135 was discovered on October 8, while NASA was closed during the government shutdown. And already it looks to soon be joining the ranks of the more than 10,000 known near-Earth objects that are virtually certain to cause us no harm.
Big asteroid buzzes past Earth and will again in 19 years – CNN.com
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