LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ASTROID COMING OUR WAY, HUH?

LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ASTROID COMING OUR WAY, HUH?, a photo by roberthuffstutter on Flickr.

LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ASTROID COMING OUR WAY, HUH?
Last week, an astroid as big as a bus just missed the South Pole by 7,500 miles, a distance equal that from New York to India. According to what I read, we had only one week's notice. I am wondering what might have happened had the astroid hit NYC. I am also wondering if the dismantling of NASA might have caused us to have such short notice of its impending route of travel. For those not in the know, an astroid the size of a bus could have wiped out NYC if it had exploded over the city. If it had struck downtown Manhattan, you can imagine the damage.

Photograph by Robert L. Huffstutter

(Sculpture made using a buried astroid found in Mojave desert?)