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Repeat after me: asteroid 2007 TU24 is no danger to Earth

Asteroid TU24 will miss Earth by a safe margin on January 29, despite fear mongering videos claiming otherwise.

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Hey, remember my slapping down a video that was full of baloney about asteroid TU24? Well, there is more of that garbage floating around You Tube, this time from user "TU24dotORG". The video in question is full of what I can politely call inaccuracies. The basic premise is that this asteroid, which will pass our planet by quite some distance on January 29, may cause all kinds of havoc on Earth. Why? Well, because they say so. For example, it says,

Although the chances of a direct impact with Earth are very minimal, truth is we don't know much about TU24.

"Very minimal" overstates it. The chances are essentially 0. It'll miss us by hundreds of thousands of kilometers. But that's not the point of that part of the video; the creator is trying to promote fear by saying astronomers don't understand the asteroid. The next part of the video ...

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