Astroid Worries Me-- Will This Be My Last Post

Today, while on the way home I heard on a radio show (he was reading from the paper) how an astroid is hurteling past earth. Here is an article I found on it, please read:

Asteroid to make close encounter with Earth
JOHN VON RADOWITZ

AN ASTEROID up to half a mile wide was due to have brushed past the Earth early today, approaching almost as close as the Moon.
In astronomical terms, that counts as a near miss, but scientists who had been tracking the path of asteroid 2004 XP14 were not worried as it approached at about ten miles per second.
Nevertheless, the body has been classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) along with 782 known others.
The object, discovered in December 2004, is one of a class of "Apollo" asteroids, whose orbits cross that of the Earth. Initially there were concerns that the body might collide with Earth later this century.
However, further analysis has ruled this out - at least for the foreseeable future.
If XP14 did hit the Earth the effects would be devastating. "It would probably be big enough to wipe out a small country," said Dr David Asher, from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.
"At least we knew about this asteroid. We should be more worried about the unknown ones.
"There are quite a lot of them flying around out there in space that have still to be discovered."
Scientists hope to gather valuable information about the asteroid by bouncing radar signals off it from the 230ft diameter Goldstone dish in California's Mojave desert.
The asteroid was expected to make its closest approach to Earth at 5:25am today.
At that moment it should have been 268,624 miles away, or almost the Moon's average distance from Earth.


As you can tell from the context it has not yet passed Earth. What if it does hit earth?! The Earth could shatter, or maybe a small country will be blown to smithereans!!! Oh, I seriously do not need this, I already have so many things to be worried by, I don't want to think that I may be killed by an asteroid. Will tomarrow be the epocolips. Ya know, it's funny because I was talking about this in the post before (the post below) but it's scary! Well, I hope scientists are right and Earth won't be ended. I am sure you've heard that the shuttle has been delayed but can you imagine if they went up and the next day, as they're floating up in space, the earth explodes! They wouldn't be able to do anything and they'd have no where to land and live. It's just plain crazy. That of course will not happen because due to the weather in Florida the shuttle was delayed.

My mom thinks that if the asteroid was going to hit Earth we would have the technology to destroy it before impact. What do you think? Ohhhhh I just hope those scientists are right. I just hate space. Sure, it's pretty but it's SPACE... think of the other definition of "space", that's what Space is only an actual place! *shivers* I don't like it. I would NEVER be an austronaut. I am more interested in Earth itself, especially the water portion of it.

I am going to go eat, I'm pretty hungry after the trip. *yawn* Much love to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Tay tay

p.s. I hate space...