Supposedly, on January 29 2008, this asteroid (TU24) will come within 500,000km with Earth. There's a few youtube videos, and a small forum with information about it, but I don't know how reliable those sources are. They do supply a link to the NASA website where they have an interactive demonstration of the orbit of TU24, and Earth intersecting on January 29th.
Here's the link incase anyone is interested:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2007%20TU24;orb=1To see the orbits better, change the center of the diagram from "Sun" to either "Earth" or "Asteroid/Comet"
The only thing about all this is that it hasn't been mentioned in the news at all. I've seen that one that was going to hit Mars a few times in the news, but not this one.
So, I'm just wondering if this could possibly hit us, or if not, what would be the concequences of it coming within 500,000km? And is this even true at all? Or is it one big hoax?
