CNN interview about a near hit by an asteroid

[DeimosSaturn]

If an asteroid comes really close to the earth, couldn't we attach a probe to it as it passes by and use it's inertia as a free means of traveling out beyond the solar system? Maybe sort of use a net or something like a net to hook the asteroid then it could reel itself to the surface. Or make the probe match the speed and trajectory and enter a stable orbit around the asteroid?

[jhmoonman]

2sillytube; can I go with u! I'll get my iron man suit on, L. O. L. 

[2sillytube]

maybe prepare for possible future events by inhabiting the core of moon

[reidmeyers]

why is phils voice muted...?

[AntiVen0mFangX]

Ah, I remember when CNN did some REAL reporting. So sad that it has become what it is now - A fear mongering, rating whore of a station.

I guess businesses will be businesses huh?

[davidlee110]

is was 2022 but now they say 2029

[BouncingBarnicle]

WAIT, Whaaaaa!? The picture of the asteriod belt at 1:52 is completely wrong! The Asteriod belt is not overcrowded with asteriods!

[Anhelain]

I love how they show the asteroid belt with asteroids so thick that they just about obscure the sun.

[cmfhunterjumper]

i thought it was supposed to come close in 2029???????????

[Ignito200606]

sucks to be someone still living when one of these big boys hit earth, if we can't stop it

[Halon00bdude1]

hell i will stop it because that time i will be a pilot and i will just say F*** this meteor and my life right now im saving over 8 billion people!! *smiley face*lol

[Meevinman]

i think by 2008 they will have discovered all NEA's 140m and above in diameter

[TheBrassHole]

Ok, it's now 2009. So have they discovered "all NEA's 140m and above in diameter" yet? lol :)

[Meevinman]

about 90% of them yes.

[autisticgrannyINC]

This was from back before CNN became a shit machine barely a step above fox in terms of journalism.

[TV341]

twin towers at 00:47

[re646]

"...could be in a million years, could be tonight. There's really no way to predict."

Well, I know I will sleep better at night.

[angel4fun]

Phil used to have hair!

[jscotti]

Hey, that's a very old video of me at the Spacewatch 36 inch telescope about 50 seconds into this video abnd at the computer later.

[valhar2000]

There was a smidgoen of Michael Moore action going on there: the way they first say that the likelyhood of an impact of very small, but then they show you saying the opposite...

[TheBadAstronomer]

That interview was like 10 years ago, so I don't remember. :-)

[leporidus]

Well done, Phil. CNN, well... may I ask for how long they interviewed you and whether there were any other interesting questions they came up with?

[bankeh]

Stop watching cnn, they report horribly, and rarely know what they are talking about

[tarvold28]

agreed