No, We're Not Facing an Onslaught of Asteroid Impacts

Today -- Sunday, Sep. 7, 2014 -- at about 18:00 UTC, a small asteroid named 2014 RC will harmlessly pass by the Earth, though at the close distance of very roughly 40,000 km. I wrote all about it a couple of days ago... and also warned that you can expect a bunch of breathless and fact-free YouTube videos about it, claiming it would hit us. I was so, so close. The very day I posted that, a ridiculous article appeared in the UK tabloid Express, claiming that the Earth "faces 100 YEARS of killer...