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An even sillier "silly season" story, appearing the same day on the front pages of the Times and the Financial Times , concerned the British government's decision to establish a task force to study the threat of an asteroid hitting Earth and destroying all life on the planet.
The NYT has a big illustrated front-page piece on the recent discovery that an asteroid, called "1997 XF 11," is likely to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth (that's eight times closer than the moon) on October 26, 2028.
In 1803 the Swedish chemist Berzelius discovered another earth and named it cerium , for the asteroid (minor planet) Ceres.
Still, there are few villains as apolitical as a giant asteroid.
A story says that many astronomers now deem Pluto too small to be a planet and want it reclassified as a large asteroid.