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With only a hundred of these things. and now we know several thousand, 10,000 of them, are able to track those orbits. so now we can say that theres likely no chance of any gigantic asteroid hitting the earth in the next few decades. >> megyn: okay. >> theres some progress. >> megyn: progress, right. >> its hard to see with the difficulty. >> megyn: last question before i let you go. the united nations called for the formation of an international network to monitor the threat posed by asteroids ...

The planetary site. do you know, i have a day job now. i have the planetary site for people to look for near-earth objects so this asteroid will pass between us and the satellite that msnbc is using right now to broadcast this -- >> uh-oh. uh-oh. >> to send this message, this broadcast around the world or around the country. understand, this thing is about 45 meters across. its about the same size as the one that made the big hole in the ground in arizona not too far from flagstaff. its about th...

Astronaut, fox news contributor and planetary scientist and asteroid studier, a cochair on a task force that deals with planetary defense. welcome back. if it hits, what would happen to a major city in world. >> this is one of the larger near earth objects that crosses the earths orbit and it would cause devastation across a region of continues intent and wipe out the eastern seaboard or the entire south central part of the u.s. but, fortunately this is 170 years in the future and theres lots of...