>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9111608/Asteroid-heads-towards-Earth-with-one-in-625-chance-of-hitting-planet.html
>>>
>>>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."
>>>
>>>Huh?
>>>
>>>UPDATE: Just seen that Bill has spotted the same problem ;-}
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.

Exactly.

So either the statistic is made up or we are on an enormous run of luck :-)