Meteoric Occasion! You're Invited!

Transcript by Theodore B. Reinhart, P.E. 2013-03-07
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-anchor-asks-bill-nye-if-global-warming-had-anything-to-do-with-a-near-earth-asteroid/
[probably aired 2013-02-09 12:24 PM PST]

Deb Feyerick, CNN
... our science guy Bill Nye, and you know, talk about something else that's falling from the sky, uh, and that is an asteroid.  Uh, what, what's coming our way? Is this an effect of, of, perhaps, global warming, or is this just some meteoric occasion?
Bill Nye, Planetary Society
No. No. Except it's all science and it is ... the word meteorology and the word meteor come from the same root, so, uh ... next Friday, the 15th of February, an asteroid, 2012 DA14, which was discovered with a grant provided from the Planetary Society, my current day job, I'm the CEO of the Planetary Society. This asteroid is about the same size as the, as the one that made the crater in Meteor Crater, Arizona, as the one that created what's called the Tunguska Event in Siberia in 1908. If such a meteor were to hit Atlanta or New York City or Boston, that would be it for those municipalities. The thing would be, about 2000 square kilometers, 1200 square miles, something like that. Destroyed. Flattened. Ruined. This one's going to miss us by about, by about ...
Deb Feyerick, CNN
But that's not going to happen. Let, let's make sure our viewers don't get nervous, uh, the meteor's sort of going up above the planet Earth. Right?
Bill Nye, Planetary Society
Yeah. Well you should get nervous, but not about this one. Yeah. Yeah, get nervous, but not about this one. This one will miss us by about 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes difference, and that's it.