text:  This is our closest encounter with an asteroid in over 100 years. Now, it is roughly the size of Mount Everest at 1.4 million miles wide. And, you know, a while back, it was once predicted to have a 1 in 71 million chance of hitting Earth by the end of the decade. But now they're saying it probably won't hit us. Do you think they would tell us the truth if an asteroid was going to hit us? No. No.