Is is a Bird? Is it a Plane? NO! LOOK OUT it's an ASTEROID!

Thanks...

...for the advanced weather forecast. Now I know it will be cloudy, probably raining, possibly snowing on that date.

What was I going to say?

I read the other people's comments and... errmm.. something about.. errrmmm...

Frikin' lasers

That's what they need to bombard it with, so we can see it when it goes past.

I say we send up Bruce Willis and a drilling team with nukes

Or nuke it from orbit -it's the only way to be sure.

Microwave

But how will we know when it's done?

ding-dong

If it goes DING and then DONG the asteroid will have to be renamed Leslie Philips.Then we'll discover that it's not an asteroid at all but a defunct computer (Hactar).

I think there is something missing from your NASA quotes - rocks 'n' stuff pass us much closer than this all the time ( one last week was ~ 100K miles away; it was much smaller though ).

0300 EST eh?

So, 2000 GMT?

While I would imagine that the UK weather will do what it does best, at least thanks to the net we can now observe it somewhere where you can actually see without the clouds, smog and light pollution.

The asteroid is frozen...

..so I hope they remember to microwave accordingly, breaking off half way to give the contents a good stir...