Asteroid Flies by Earth and Briefly Makes Us Contemplate Our Mortality

On February 4th, 2018 an asteroid didn’t even come close to making impact with the earth, but boy was I worried.

While our local radio station warned us to prepare for the highlight of the year — aka Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl half-time show — NASA was watching something much more significant.

We were getting ready to grill out and perform our ritual pre-gaming activites, yes in the Wisconsin winter — what can I say we are die-hards — when our favorite local radio station hyped us up for the super bowl half-time show and followed with a brief mention of an asteroid that NASA has been eyeing for the past 14 years.

My husband and I shot each other one of those, “Whoa…what?” looks and immediately wondered why we hadn’t heard much about this.

Of course, we took to our technology and googled “February 2018 asteroid.” Sure enough, CBS News reported:

NASA stated that asteroid 2002 AJ129, is classified as a “Potentially Hazardous Asteroid” (PHA) but poses no threat to Earth for at least another century.

My Husband Was Worried About The Asteroid

Sheer terror. He buys into fear mongering big time. He is always worried about meteors, doomsday, aliens…