I heard about that. I was also watching somthing on the national geographics channel where they said the united states is the only county spending money on tracking astroids and coming up with ways to move them if one ever does get on a crash course with the earth. Still its only a 4 million a year program and the scientist said they only know the where abouts of 40% of the astroids that cross eaths orbital path every year. so one could hit us at any moment and we may not have even seen it coming.
Omun Reviewed by Omun on . Huge Asteroid Toutatis to whiz past Earth September 29, 2004 12:58 IST Last Updated: September 29, 2004 13:37 IST A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT (7.05 pm IST) Wednesday, reports NASA. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon, this will be the closest approach of any known asteroid of comparable size this century. "This is the closest Toutatis will come for another 500 years, Rating: 5