An asteroid will just miss Earth today. We won't always be so lucky!
Updated by Joseph Stromberg on September 6, 2014, 9:00 a.m. ET @josephstromberg joseph@vox.com
An artist's rendering of an asteroid. (P. Carril/ESA)
On Sunday afternoon — at 2:15 pm Eastern time, to be exact — a small asteroid will whiz by the Earth.
Don't worry: it'll miss us by about 25,000 miles. To be clear, there is zero chance it can hit us. This is certain.
But in the long-term, worrying a little about asteroids isn't an unreasonable idea. Now, the odds of a massively destructive asteroid impact at any given time are tiny — but the potenti