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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19103764" data-attributes="member: 158020">-Doomsday Asteroid that was supposed to hit Earth today- <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/09/15/2D3CE18200000578-3266392-image-a-30_1444399511801.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> NASA put out another statement this past  week that asteroid 86666 (2000 FL 10) was going to pass safely by Earth  on Saturday, seeking to quell what had become doomsday panic among some."It  poses zero threat," the space agency's Near-Earth Object office  tweeted, stating that the asteroid would miss our planet by 15 million  miles. For comparison's sake, the moon is about 238,000 miles from Earth. At its closest, Venus is about 25 million miles away from our planet.The asteroid's is estimated to be as large as 2.6 kilometers (1.5 miles)<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" />, according to the NASA Near-Earth Object Program. <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/09/15/2D3C7EB100000578-3266392-Asteroid_86666_2000_FL10_is_due_to_make_its_closest_pass_on_10_O-a-38_1444400127022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> It's the second time in the past few weeks that Earth stubbornly refused to cease to exist; ominous speculations surrounding the "blood moon" lunar eclipse of September 27-28 didn't pan out, either.Back in August, NASA released a statement clearly stating that there would be no threat after theories that a large asteroid would hit Earth went viral. "There  is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid  or any other celestial object will impact Earth" on the rumored dates,  NASA's Paul Chodas, manager of the Near-Earth Object office, said in  August. The agency's office is at Pasadena, California's, Jet Propulsion  Laboratory.That's not to say that  NASA hasn't missed near-Earth objects in the past. In February 2013, a  meteor streaked through the skies of Russia's Ural region and exploded. The space agency said the meteor was a small asteroid and its explosion was the equivalent to 300,000 tons of TNT,  which caused glass to shatter in buildings and injured about 1,000  people, most in the city of Chelyabinsk, according to Russian  authorities. The chances of being hit by an asteroid are minuscule though. In fact, there's a 0.01 percent chance of a potentially hazardous object impacting Earth in the next 100 years.You have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than Earth does of being hit by a big asteroid in your lifetime. NASA's  Near-Earth Object office as well as hundreds of astronomers and  scientists all over that world are constantly monitoring the skies, and  are looking out for asteroids that could threaten our planet.There's even a day dedicated to improving asteroid detection and monitoring.NASA is also working on programs that may stop or redirect dangerous asteroids away from Earth. --------------------------- <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/10/world/asteroid-passes-earth/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/10/world/asteroid-passes-earth/</a> </blockquote>

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