Heard of this asteroid about a year ago... Big buzz at the time of discovery in amateur astronomy, then the calcs were redone by either NASA or the European space agency, took over a year to do.... Apparently to make it a one in a million chance of hitting earth larger margins of errors were introduced to create a wider flight path band so to speak, so that the earth takes up a tiny part of it... hence a now one in a million chance of it colliding with earth. I think the gfc was created to hide the trillions required to send Bruce up to knock it off course. Suddenly there are private companies hoping to mine near earth asteroids within a few years....
On another conspiracy theory... anyone else notice the global warming nay sayers, there is one such particular silly old ah heck on Sydney radio, offloading their waterfront properties and buying large chunks of cheap, soon to be very lucrative, high ground?