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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 there's likely no chance of any gigantic asteroid hitting the earth in the next few decades. >> megyn: okay. >> there's some progress. >> megyn: progress, right. >> it's 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 and other near earth objects. do you believe that this should be a united nations effort? >> well...

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. it's about the same size as the one that made the big hole in the ground in arizona not too far from flagstaff. it's about the same size as the one that created the tungusta event. this is where the rock comes into the eart...

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 earth's 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 there's lots of time to think... bill: that is a key components, 170 years away? how do you know that? >> well, t...