I also suspect that in any given year there are at least several Near-Earth objects that get within observational range of Earth (I'm talking within millions of miles). There might have been one discovered recently that visits the neighborhood in 2012, though I don't recall anything. I think these folks can't distinguish between an object that will pass at 10 LDs (lunar distances) and a collision :roll: .

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