Meteor fly by - Asteroid's passing was a cosmic near-miss

[jasonyeozhishen]

that little ball.. she says it..

[ANDYW031084]

To the CNN guy next week asteroid will hit your house an kill u an all your family !!! how funny is that idiot !! so place CNN DON'T make jokes about something like this .

[itzrichardz]

a bigger one will arive in a matter of years and actualy hit earth....

[xBeyondxGamingx]

@itzrichardz We already have the technology to deflect them, bigger ones are much easier to detect. And also 'in a matter of years' We'll have better technology and better detection.

[ANDYW031084]

They are always laughing about something series !! fuckers !!

[ANDYW031084]

CNN idiots !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1plus1plus1equals3]

Look at America we sit here and joke about this sh!t on our "news" ... we are sick

[jamil316]

December 21st 2012  is near

[alconaftika]

@jamil316 December 20th 2012 is closer, whats your point?

[xBeyondxGamingx]

@jamil316 You seriously believe in that? Scientists aren't even correct. 'If the Mayan prophecies are correct, the world will end December 21, 2012' No. If Mayan prophecies are correct, the world would actually end August 15, 2012. There were never even any 'prophecies'. It was all a calendar maker. I'm almost POSITIVE anyone making calendars 4000+ years into the future would get tired of it or die. I just proved everything wrong. Sorry to crap on your logic.

[Willowman100]

poor earth

[MCOFFICIAL2011]

its been 18 months

[J5MARLON]

God does love us.

[QNotebook]

If the asteroid was a threat, we would know about it. But because it was pre-determineded that this asteroid was not going to hit the Earth, of COURSE they are not going to be extremely serious about. Why would they when it came and went and wasn't even a threat to us~

[homerm06]

HA! They won't be laughing when they get the "WAKE THE FUCK UP" call to report an asteroid impact and they got 5 hours to live... :)

[TheMichelliott]

Wow soooo this astroid that "almost" hit earth. We find this out - when it passed and everything was okay- hmmm well I guess this earth could be destroyed any givin moment and without warning. I guess this "lovely" government that we have didnt want to cause a ruckess. Let's just all be thankful were still here. and thank you government for sharing the threats with is

[wick5449]

Spooky, because for all the different space bodies we know about, there are many many more we don't know about . True enough that on any given day we could be obliterated, but right now we can't do anything about it, so why not laugh about it? I would, and do. Death is lurking around us in so many forms that we just have to go on and do what we have to do, or go nuts worring about it.

[jsl151850b]

I suppose it makes sense for the meteorologist to talk about meteors.

It missed by 4 Earth diameters.

For space, that's too darn close!

[KILLBETTV]

THESE MUTHAFUCKHEADS KRACKIN JOKES....OK GOD FINNA WOOOP SOME ASS... AND NOW ITS 18 MONTHS LATER

[davidls11]

Just one more thing for Pat Robertson to blame on gay people.

[bluetoyceli]

Laughter is a natural reaction to fear for some people.

[deimos2k6]

Dumbass Live CNN

[SuperExpressway]

it was looking for justin bieber but bieber was hiding so the asteroid just passed by...

[mariahandchristina]

@SuperExpressway Your another idiot who spreads his name around. Is he that much of a highlight in your life?

[Thunderr10]

"YES.. CHOO CHOO CHCHOO CHCHOO CHOO CHOO"

[Moetedoendan]

if they use a ultra super camera that they for sure can use we would all c its fake and then they cant keep telling us lies and this is how it goes with ufos to ;)

[level8230]

They knew it was comming. It has a one and ten thousand chance of hitting in the eighteenth month. with magnetic poles switching, how much is the chance now?

[level8230]

Here it is. I watched this the night it crossed.

[veronika138]

Glad something like this is such a great joke for some people.

[MrVolcanoes22]

A 154 foot asteroid is actually small and apophis will dip below our communications sattelites and is approx. 850 feet across.

[mja2035]

Glad they think it's funny.

[howeydab2008]

why do americans always get carried away for example annoys me much : example oh my god theres a fat fly with wings ohhhh duuuuuddde look at them wings i cant believe a fly has wings : that kind of personality seriously the americans are a danger to this planet when they start fucking around

[someoneON]

i like apocalypse. makes everything reset back to zero, and cures all the wrongness of everything.

[0liferider0]

in place of screaming aaaaaahhhhhh we could as wel enjoy it PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[ThOrNAuReLia]

as meteor is a burning mass every day we fell the heat . '' global warming '' i just wonder what from does it come ? i think that its the asteroid coming closer ...

[libraryquiet]

@ThOrNAuReLia Are you black?

[BertusofWater]

That reporter was way off about how many we discover a year...."a hundred new ones"..... in the past ten years we have discovered over 400,000 new asteroids.

[xilliah]

Near miss, so it hit us?

[Nexumen]

@xilliah Yeah. A near-miss. Shows hows some people don't know English huh? They should have said near-hit. Nearly hit us. He should've had a V8.

[Confess2Regret]

damn meteor, why.. JUST WHY.. I wished it hit.. i'd be soo happy, the last thing i wanna see is a huge mother fucker smash onto this world. 

[aboctok]

Please.. someone whack a gag on these two cackling morons..

[jubocca]

laughing it up. Oh how funny!!!!!

[thespokenfont]

they do the same thing with UFOS..they laugh when people say they saw them , what the hells wrong with these people.. this isn't a damned joke...what the fuk they laughing for??

[roastpork4]

@thespokenfont cause that is what these asshole's get paid to do! we need to put and end to this kind of shit in our country!!!! the real question is WHY WEREN'T TOLD !!!!!

[FALCO64125]

@roastpork4 I'd much rather close calls be kept a secret. It takes some people a mere sports team winning/losing as an excuse to go out and do stupid things.  You want to tell them that the end of the world is 5 times closer than the moon? Well, guess ya better hide yo kids and hide yo wife.

[FALCO64125]

@thespokenfont Damn right, they should treat this matter seriously and give us pointers on how to prepare. Duct tape and gas masks are a must!

[suroj]

This kind of news program is there to dumb down the population. If you take it seriously, then you are dumb!

[MrVforvendetta10]

There was an asteroid in 2009 that was on a collision course with earth, and impacted in the sudanese desert, yet scientists couldnt predict where it was going to hit, yet there is not a single warning given to the people of this planet.You would think something like this would be all over the tv and radio to warn people that there is a huge asteroid heading for earth! But instead they say nothing.If there was an asteroid heading for earth they wouldnt tell us!Why?I don't know!

[JacobProvo]

@MrVforvendetta10 If its not bigg enough to kill us all, than theres no reason to tell us.Do you was everyone freaked out for something the size of a pebble stricking earth?

[marselmarku]

dumb reporters....

[AchillesWar]

fuckin astroid just missed us and they talk about a video game and joke about it. what a bunch of assholes.

[jahlyric]

ASSHOLES!!!! WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY LAUGHING ABOUT THIS. THIS IS NOT FUNNY AT ALL. I AM DISCUSSED BY THESE TWO DUMB FUCK JOKERS. GO TO HELL

[nathanfishing3000]

AND ITS NOT FUNNY JERKS

[nathanfishing3000]

18 MONTS 18 MONTS ITS THIS YEAR ITS THIS YEAR 2010 WAA WAAAAAAAA WAAAAAA IM NEVER GONA BE A PILOT

[redevilfan09]

These two clowns wouldnt be so schmuk if this thing actually hit.

[wetdream09]

when i watched this i thought, damn bitch that was serious quite laughing.

then i read the comments, glad i aint alone.

[jbpjanus]

Sorry i cant see the funny part of this either, if this happens again i hope it hits those lame reporters haaard....... O_o

[robiking011]

come on guys why, are we worried about asteroids hitting earth? it only happens in movies or in a million years.

[soyuski]

They saw it coming. They thought it would be better to let everyone die in ignorance.

[xtro999]

i heard that it passed through the keyhole and its very good odds it will hit in 18 months

[CalebReutingFilms]

They laugh but what if it would have hit?

[IrishBen195]

there asteroids hitting the atmosphere each day and are we dead?.........NO

[flyby7a]

Oh CNN then you wonder why NO ONE TAKES you guys SERIOUSLY,, Ya freaking Parcialist Republican A55 Kissing

[thebaloonman]

how could they not see it coming she asks.... its not like the sky isn't infinitly vast, its not like it is lit up, its not like they watch the entire sky every second of everyday, its not like there are hundreds of thousands of these things flying around, its not like it was very big in astronomical terms..... fuckin idiot

[TheRider143]

the hell with them..that wasn't funny

[kcronic808]

@TheRider143 i noe rite i just fuckherr guud till she learnes not 2 crack a wise one about humanity dumb bitch

[mtrudel0000]

notice how he said as we go through the belt, they dont report the real news, just the safe news

[kamranshere76]

these two people are such idiots!!! that woman is a moron... she needs to be fired.

[thiagofali]

let's see these presenters laughing when the asteroid that missed us comes back a few years later...

[seriall1337]

Bah american tv-hosts trying to be funny xD

[TenderTrap86]

They didn't see an asteroid coming, but don't worry folks, global warming is real, for sure. Really.

[MrRick417]

its all fun and games now hahahaha laugh it up

[bigbang168]

it did nearly hit i saw a massive dark cloud

[ILLUSIONofLIES]

i donno about you guys but before 2012 im gonna stop all my sins, prob earlyier like 2010 im gettin freaked out about this shit, it feels like this asteroid is a warning to us to wake up to reality.

[TalentlessNoob]

@ILLUSIONofLIES Good luck bud.. God is here to protect us he is with us...

[kcronic808]

@ILLUSIONofLIES no no were all dead no warning so live it 2 tha fulist befor we go i hope they got youtube in heaven du wut yuu gotta do yuu smoke weed fuck a horse KILL SOMEBUDY idk man just sumtin datall make yuu jizz yor pants befor yuu die

[sgttaco1]

@kcronic808 Maybe learn some grammar and spelling while we're at it, too...

[kcronic808]

@sgttaco1 na im guud fuckgrammer just smoke weed everyday

[sgttaco1]

@ILLUSIONofLIES Are you serious? There is no freakin' accurate way to predict the end of the world! Not even with today's technology!!! If we can't do it today, I'm pretty sure the Mayans couldn't do it with their freakin' pyramids.

[Meashisgod]

@ILLUSIONofLIES u fukin donkey, its all chance. no warnings. 50/50 all the time

[rosen00000]

they are just happy that it did not hit and no 1 can tell excactly what will happen in 2012 might be meteors,nukes,aliens or even Jesus and Satan having sex i guess we will find out in 3 years ...

[PrankishSmart]

Tunguska event always seemed impressive to me although the damage potential I think would be depending on the angle of the approach and also if it exploded in air like tunguska did or hit the ground. Tunguska would severly damage or destroy a small city if it hit right in the center.

Tunguska was about 1/3 the power of the Tsar Bomb.

[latuzaterrera]

if so funny to them way

[rockenr1954]

I watch news channels continuously through out the day and today on CNN was the first time I'd heard anything on the Indonesian or the most recent astroids. I guess if you don't address the situation they think it will go away.

[rockenr1954]

I really can't see the humor these reporters find in this newscast. It's time the world gets of their lazy asses and take situations like this more seriously and try to find some kind of intervention to change the orbit or destroy these earth ending missles.

[uitham]

Scientists discovered that the maya calendar didn't end in 2012, but in 2222.

Just believe in science.

[tOKe1uP]

Aphohis happend early... that meens IT WILL HIT IN 2012

[MGSplayer2]

aliens nor anything else god is punishing us for our misbehavior and send us an early scare because god created us and we are destroying our planet we must protect the earth and it will be much more powerful to be destroyed we must alert obama for a clen-up in earth or die

[SaYwHaT12341000]

what happens if more come

[kainebrandon]

if 3 meteors hit earth we would have massive earth quakes and every 1 would fall over and the world would die

[riffs04]

i don't think that guy would take this so lightly if he knew how much damage this asteroid would have caused. tunguska over a large city would be devastating.

[retrocareermelted]

too bad it didnt strike the studio that morning

[ExploringBeyond]

The aliens who shot that meteor at us must be swearing at each other because they KNEW they had to shoot it one parsec to the left, but they decided not to.

But then again, maybe Superman saved us once again from a meteor and we just didn't know :P

[Ajscapeunlimited]

Loled

[EyEnOtgAy]

perhaps it was jesus's dookie

[mchirvi777]

i think it was a comet that hit siberia.

[mnpd007]

If that thing had hit Siberia again, we'd be out a few herders and some reindeer. Had it hit the northeast of the U.S., you could could figure dead in the millions.

[mnpd007]

I can get on a space simulator like Celestia and fly at accelerated time for a million years and never get close enough to anything to see a disk form.

I rode 2009 DD45 during the critical period and came so close to the Earth that I could see the continents and the labels for the Hubble and Space Station.

For anyone who thinks it wasn't a close shave... think again.

[cyborgkillpsycho666]

ya it was, thye new they pretended they didnt

[sickwiththetruth]

It wasn't even that fuckin close. Please!

[playsafe869]

close enough mate, that could have done so much damage

[sickwiththetruth]

playsafe869,

It was 38,000 miles away. Not even close.

[kewlnsimpguy]

space talk that is close

[edderd8]

38.000 miles is enormous to walk yes. HERE we talking about miles in space what means liek history talks: when u are 100 years its lot for u but not for history even 1000 years a little period in history so here the same but in space and think about the gravity fo the earth ..

[RestlessZion]

so if it were to hit it would have landed in the ocean? do you know?

[KORNBOY316]

Fire those FUCKS!!!

[braydongos]

that wouldn't do alot of damage that one it would kill people depending were it would hit

[Mardasee]

So exciting it was for these news anchors to report this news. Chuckle chuckle chuckle. But if that thing did strike the earth let's say at a survival distance away from these anchors, would they chuckle about it then?

[wrestlefanatic77]

I'd like to see their reaction when Apophis comes in 2029.......

[sobolev499]

By that time, scientists will learn how to turn rocks into marshemelloo..

Il be glad to join in and eat it :)

[WillBadRacing]

Apophis is only a 'maybe', as long as it missed the keyhole in space above Earth, we'll be ok but I hope they sort out a solution for the worst case scenario soon... if PlanetX which no one can find evidence of doesn't hit us first ;o)

[panzerxt]

is something funny???

[panzerxt]

This is a joke???

[Basisforstace]

Im glad the assinine reporters at CNN think this is funny..