>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9111608/Asteroid-heads-towards-Earth-with-one-in-625-chance-of-hitting-planet.html
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>>Snip:
>>"NASA has said that options include deflecting the asteroid by attaching a probe to it and using the extra gravity this would create to steer it away from Earth over the course of millions of light years."
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>>Huh?
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>>UPDATE: Just seen that Bill has spotted the same problem ;-}
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>I notice its a 1 on the Torino scale so I think Grady may have to wait a bit longer for the end of the world.
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>http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale.html says that a 10 (thats a goodnight folks . turn out the lights on the way out) occurs once every 100000 years or more often. That seems a little frequent to me.

Uhm.. God news is that last 10-er happened some 65m years ago ?
Just when T-Rex thought his reign will last forever... There goes k-boom. Then Planet/Nature reboots itself again.