Let's enter the Paracast with your host, Gene Steinberg and David Beulg.

Let's start today's show with something that, I don't know if people noticed this, but last

week there was this asteroid thing that narrowly missed the planet.

Did you hear about that, Gene?

Yes, it's strange that we don't hear about this before it happens.

We hear about it after it happens, and the problem would be then, of course strange that we don't hear about this before it happens. We hear about it after it happens.

And the problem would be then, of course, that if it did hit us, it would be too late to worry about it.

But we'd get rid of Fox News.

If only. Really?

Yes.

If only, that would have been so good.

Well, no, here's the funny part, because there is a funny part to this.

This asteroid came within about 40,000 miles of the planet Earth, and it passed right over the Pacific Ocean.

Had this thing impacted, it would have just been an absolute nightmarish disaster.

Just it would have been terrible.

And apparently the astronomers had seen it a couple of days before it actually went over the planet.

Yeah, this wasn't really reported in the media until after it had gone by.

This is actually mirroring something had happened in 2004.

When there was this other, this NM 2004, I think was what it was called, the NM standing for

near miss, another large object

passed by the earth really, really close. Then there was a couple of weeks ago, there was this

big sonic boom over Westchester County in New York. And apparently they think that this was

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