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[Dante Lauretta] There's a very exciting event coming up
today 2012 da14 is going to do a close

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flyby to the earth at a distance of
about 17,000 miles. The good news is that

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the earth is safe, the International
Space Station is safe, and all of our

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satellite assets are safe.

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NASA has an extensive near-earth
observation program that's been scanning

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the skies for well over a decade to
catalogue the most potentially hazardous

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asteroids and to assess their impact
threat. This has been a phenomenally

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successful program and we've retired the
majority of risk associated with an

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asteroid impact in the near future.

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The flyby of asteroid 2012 da14 is a
historic event. Never before in human

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history have we been able to see an
object come this close of this size. This

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is an attribute to our the phenomenal
success of our asteroid observation

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programs. We've been scanning the skies
for well over a decade to catalog these

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objects. We're able to predict their
orbits well into the future and get

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ready for this phenomenal scientific
event.