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

[Ron Baalke]

> 
> 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