[meteorite-list] City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall (Toutatis)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 4 11:37:34 2004
Message-ID: <200405041537.IAA11990_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> I'm watching a fiction story of a 10.5 hitting L.A. right now....this
> asteroid doesn't make me feel any easier!

Don't worry, Toutatis has a 0% chance of impacting the Earth. It has flown
by the Earth a few times before, and we've bounced radar off it to get these
images:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/toutatis.html

It is an interesting object.

Ron Baalke
Received on Tue 04 May 2004 11:37:06 AM PDT