er, maybe collides with earth:

There’s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA (news - web sites) scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.

Perhaps it is just my own fears talking here (and sorry to do this around the holiday season, but it’s kind of a slow tech news week), but though I’m not that familiar with the above source, I’m more familiar with USA TODAY:

The asteroid’s chance for hitting Earth on April 13, 2029 has now been categorized as a 4 on the Torino Scale. The level 4 rating � never before issued � is reserved for “events meriting concern” versus the vast majority of potentially threatening asteroids that merely merit “careful monitoring.”

15 months ago March 21, 2014 was also linked as a possible day an asteroid would collide with earth and my comments still stand:

Something about the prospect of an asteroid actually, really, plausibly colliding with earth like had reportedly wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago seems more of a threat than nuclear war to me