This link describes an Asteroid that will (as of now) most likely hit the earth in 2019.
Here is a snippet of the new report from BBC News -
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space.
A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019, although the uncertainties are large.
Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value.
From its brightness astronomers estimate it is about 2km wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.
Jacob will be 19 then .. 19 when I first saw the date I thought, that is just around the corner, then I thought about what his age would be and realized it's a lifetime away. I hope it turns out to not be on a collision course, or I hope by then we humans have perfected some sort of method for dealing with such dangers .. but I have a feeling we wont ..
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Thanks!
Dave
