NASA Tracks Near Earth Asteroid. Asteroid Deniers demand Astronomer’s Emails..

OK, I’m joking. But for a second there, you wondered, right?

What happens when, in a world taken over by the anti-science right, we take away scientists rights of speech, suppress their right to discuss freely amongst themselves, and even defund the very apparatus for observing objective reality?

Daily Galaxy:

A huge chunk of black rock bigger than four city blocks is speeding toward us at more than 30,000 miles an hour. Scientists say the asteroid will miss us, but it will be barely more than 200,000 miles away when it passes Earth at 11:13 p.m. Tuesday, and in cosmic terms that’s whisker close.

NASA and astronomers at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, CA will be tracking the fast-moving object with the center’s 36-inch telescope, as will scientists at other observatories around the world.

The scientists have estimated the possible effect which a clash with an asteroid of this size could cause to the Earth and namely – a 7-magnitude earthquake and a 20-meter tsunami, leaving a 6-kilometer crater.

The asteroid was detected six years ago by Robert S. McMillan, director of the University of Arizona’s Spacewatch project, whose telescopes atop Kitt Peak near Tucson survey the skies nightly for what NASA calls NEOs, or Near Earth Objects.