Science fiction has taken turn to reality

To read the details, it seemed like a story straight out of Hollywood. In January - completely unknown to virtually everyone - an asteroid was headed toward earth with as much as a 40 percent chance of striking somewhere. The 100-foot wide hunk of rock was zooming to the Earth with amazing speed. Had it been a bit smaller, it would have exploded harmlessly far above the earth. But at that size, it would have impacted. Depending on where it struck, the results would have been devastating.