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Spotted last October by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, 2007 TU24 is estimated to be between 500 feet and 2,000 feet long. The next time an asteroid this size will fly this close to Earth will be in 2027.
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A couple thoughts come to mind...
1) They only discovered this object last October? That really doesn't give us much time to do anything...
2) They discovered it in October, and the first we hear about it is Jan 24, five days before the event?
3) How late, if ever, would they have waited to inform the public if it WAS going to impact earth?
4) The statement "The next time an asteroid this size will fly this close to Earth will be in 2027." is utter bullshit and wishful thinking based on the sentence just prior to it.
