[meteorite-list] Asteroid 2004 MN4: A Really Near Miss!

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:45:07 -0600, "Kirk Jenks" <bandk at chorus.net> wrote:

>Hey, if its going to pass within satellite distance of Mother Earth, let's
>hope for NO nudging from anything in the next 20 years or so. By comparison,
>a flick of the finger could be enough to change its trajectory for the
>worse.
>                                        Best,

Oh, it's a small rock.  I'm sure that worse comes to worst, it would kill only a few million people
(and that's if it was a direct hit on a large population center).  And all of those people would die
someday, anyway.  :-)