This morning, at 8:52 am, Mountain Daylight Time, 250-grams of Asteroid Bennu struck Earth in the Great Salt Lake Desert … at a speed of approximately 11 miles per hour. No crater was formed by its impact. In this SPECIAL episode, we’ll go deeper into asteroids as potential Black Swans. 

As part of my situational awareness practice, I was scanning the news headlines early this morning and got hooked by a headline about how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission “will stop the Asteroid Bennu from shattering Earth" … in 160 years. Sometimes scanning the news is like walking the floor of a gambling casino. I should have kept walking this morning, but I stopped and put a quarter in the Asteroid Bennu machine.