Image this: you’re zooming via area in a torpedo-shaped ship doing the damaging job of salvaging materials in a planet’s cluttered orbit when some big, alien cousin of a fish pops up...
About 5 and a 1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as extensive because the Empire State Constructing is tall will streak by area inside 20,000 miles (32,200 kms) of Earth,...