Another thing that I love is how this crap is turned into a gold mine by Hollywood fellas. That's ok, it's entertainment, good action movies with all-american heros. But there's no science behind them.
Take Armageddon with Bruce Willis, all I can say is "Oh God!" every time I see it.... An asteroid the size of TX can't hide from the sun, can't hide from other planets, it would be detectable in one way or another, if they detected Apophis, and that's nothing compared to that huge thing in the movie.... enough said.
All that NASA would need to do is to park a probe near the huge rock and let it be, the influence of the probe would, over the years, deviate the rock just a bit from its course so it'd miss us completely.
But there are no action heros there, no cool special effects, and no end of the world crap we apparently fear but love to hear about. Imagine the movie where a team in NASA is constructing an unmanned probe, launched, and then you get to watch a rock and a little shiny thing next to it for a long time... boriiiiiiiing.... Oh wait, maybe somebody would say that shiny thing is a UFO, the mothership, and the rock is the weapon of destruction!!!!! Bottom line, abandon all rationality and real faith and get your checkbook ready to send donations to all these cults from hell.
And out of the mothership comes..... You guessed it, Elvis, Cobain and Michael Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!
Precisely. When plates collide, mountains are formed. The tops of the mountains thus used to be at or below sea level. The Himalayas were formed when India collided with and sutured onto the Asian continent.
That, or it was the work of aliens.
