Asteroid Apophis, Formerly "2002 NY40", Still Coming!

Can This Really Be the End???

Scientists have announced the "discovery" of an asteroid that has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking the Earth on Sunday, April 13, 2036. This asteroid they go on to say, if it impacts, that is,if it becomes a meteorite, could wipe out a city, or a region. The scientists are calling the asteroid, Apophis. They are reportedly considering ways to deal with this potentially cataclysmic space traveler.

Pardon me, but guy's, I knew that already!! 20/20, the nationally viewed news program reported, during 2006, in it's "Final days" program, a program dealing with the 8 top ways that the world may suddenly end, an asteroid poetically named "Asteroid 2002 NY40" (the asteroid was first sighted during 2002) , which
was a "near miss" on Aug. 17th and 18th, 2006, which they went on to say is again due in 2029 (Friday, April 13), and will pass, closer than the August 2006 pass, within the orbits of our communication satellites. That same asteroid will AGAIN pass, even closer, on April 13, 2036.

The upper limit of the size of the 2002 NY 40 asteroid has been reported as only 400 meters across. Other sources indicate the size of the rapidly moving space object as large as 800 meters.

They indicated, at 20/20, that there are currently "enough scientists working on this dilemma to staff 1/5 the McDonald's Fast Food restaurants in the world."
They said, because of the speed of the projectile, crossing a distance similar to the diameter of the Moon in 6 minutes or at 65,000 kilometers per hour, there was little hope of interception. They said, in any case, if we explode the traveler, we will be confronted not with one large object, but with hundreds, or thousands of smaller objects.

May I presume to say that the 20/20 projectile, and the new discovery, Apophis, are one and the same.