We're Doomed! 40 Years And Counting... – 452 days old

[ZemaTalon]

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Armageddon 2040: Nasa identifies new asteroid threat which 'could hit Earth' in 30 years' time - and UN teams are working out how to divert it

Asteroid has 1 in 625 chance of hitting Earth
UN team debating options including nuclear weapons and 'steering' it away with a probe
Scientists will measure rock further in 2013

It is 460ft wide and soaring through space - on a possible collision course with Earth.
Nasa has identified a new asteroid threat to our planet and calculated that it could potentially impact on February 5th 2040.
The 2011 AG5 has already attracted the concern of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has begun discussing ways to divert it.

Read the whole story here.

From what I remember reading about it years ago, when it makes a close pass in 2023, gravitational attraction from the Earth will tweak its trajectory Earthward, setting it up for a much closer encounter in 2040. All we have to do is buy asteroid insurance and walk around wearing football helmets

[Dark Angel]

2040? Pfft! I expect to have been hit by a bus, shot by an invading army or mauled by a semi-literate football player I've pissed off well before then.

[MSUredux]

Didn't one pass us inside the moons orbit a couple years ago?

[Bad Haircut]

It's about time someone mentioned Uranus...

[Grogan]

uranus would swallow the earth!

[Dark Angel]

uranus would swallow the earth!

but only until someone called out "armageddon!"

[Grogan]

You'd need those shoulder length latex gloves for that...

[ZemaTalon]

Because you'd have to watch out for the klingons

[MSUredux]

but only until someone called out "armageddon!"

That was a funny bit