#2984: Asteroid News
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[Close-up of Blondie as a news anchor speaking, alongside an image to the left of an asteroid passing by Earth. The path of the asteroid is shown as a dashed line near the top-left, with the Moon orbiting the Earth below it.]
Blondie: Astronomers initially said there was a one-in-6,000 chance that the newly-discovered asteroid might "do something cool" in 2063, but further observations determined it will be "just a boring dot like all the others."
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?'