Heh, heh...they were double checking their math to see if it was going to hit.Heh, heh...they were double checking their math to see if it was going to hit.| NASA found Asteroid 2004 FH on Monday night, and now they report it at @ 1:15 am,est Thursday
This incident shows us what the state of the science really is on "asteroid detection." If a thing like this can remain undetected until it's 48 hours away, we're a long way from being able to do anything about it. If our number comes up, we're hosed. |
Which tells us they weren't sure until sometime today that it would miss.