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There's a bus-sized asteroid called 2012 BX34 That is getting closer to striking Earth with each successive orbit around Sol. It recently passed between Earth and the Moon's orbit around us. There was a mention of this same(?) asteroid in late June last year. It was alot closer to Earth this time. I wonder its solar orbital pattern will bring it to eventually hit us... I'm not worried though! An object that small, passing through our atmosphere would break apart and vaporize at it descended as a meteor. The largest mass that hits us will be about the size of a basketball up to a shopping cart. There may be horrible property damage and loss of life it and it's fragments hit populate land, but that's not very likely. Although there could be small tsunamis.