Giant asteroid coming

CNN has a report on impending doom:

If astronomers are right, all life on this planet could be extinguished in less than thirty years from now. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have detected a large object the size of Manhattan possibly on a collision course with Earth. Using their Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), the ten-mile wide object was found approximately fifty million miles from Earth. Scientists believe that, during a close encounter with Mars, the asteroid was nudged slightly off its usual orbit and may currently be on a high speed collision course with our fragile planet.
The asteroid is calculated to have a potentially lethal encounter with the Earth on March 35, 2041. Astronomers have placed the odds of an impact at 1 in 2.04, which is by far the most unprecedented risk ever faced to humanity, let alone from asteroids. Such an impact could potentially end civilization as we know it.
More information will be posted here as the story develops...

Rico says he'll be dead before it gets here, but the grandkids are screwed, if they can't figure out to to deflect it... (And didn't they try that in Asteroid?) But, unless Rico is mistaken (or CNN is) March does not have 35 days in it...