So, That Asteroid Didnt Kill Earth. Bonus: It Delivered Tons of Data

Published: April 26, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

b'This week, a kilometer-wide asteroid whizzed by within about a million miles of this planet\\u2014about four and half times the distance between the Earth and the moon. A near miss? Not really. The odds of 2014 JO25 actually hitting Earth were around one in a million. The safer bet is on science. As in, how much of it astronomers were able to gather from the close pass of such a huge space rock.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'