A 'potentially hazardous' blue-whale- asteroid will zip through Earth’s orbit on Friday

[admin]

The asteroid is being tracked by NASA and isn’t a danger to Earth.

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[Snorrie]

So right now the only operational in-place asteroid diversion techniques are groups of scientists and citizens muttering "OK this one will miss us", and our astute politicians passing laws that prohibit asteroids from hitting Earth. Somehow I'm neither surprised nor comforted.