I must confess that I am a volcano nerd. I've been fascinated with them dating back to the Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980. My fascination with this part of geology led me to ask the question what would it really take to make the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt? This is what I found.
Doomsday conspiracy theorists will only be disappointed on Tuesday as a space rock named "Asteroid 2005 YU55" will miss the Earth, but in space terms - just barely.