Once again, we're all going to die. I mean, look at the size of that asteroid; it's just huge! The article says it could wipe out a whole continent (since there's no chance it could land in the water that covers two-thirds of the planet).

If you read something a little more scientific, you might notice that the asteroid is only 2km in diameter, and that the risk of it even hitting Earth is slight. The BBC article does mention — right at the bottom — that the calculations still need a little work, and “[t]he error in our knowledge of where NT7 will be on 1 February 2019 is large, several tens of millions of kms”.

So what have we learned from all of this? We're learned that a 2km asteroid may be several tens of millions of kilometres of Earth in about 16 years time, that people panic at the drop of a hat, and that graphic artists have no concept of just how big 2km really is.