Anyone know anything about this asteroid, 2008SV11, and the prediction it will impact with earth?

JPL NEO Impact Risk page

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

Using the telnet [yes telnet!] interface to JPL's Horizons System I get the following data:

Nominal Close Approach Distance: 0.018563 AU (about 2.8 million km)

Minimum Approach Distance (3 std dev):0.003670 AU (about 550,000 km)

Maximum Approach Distance (3 std dev): 0.109266 AU (about 16 million km)

3 std dev variation in time of closest approach: 3981.7 minutes (66 hours)

Scaling required to enlarge the uncertainty envelope to touch the Earth: 5.1

Linearised impact probability: 3.9 x 10^-11 (1 in 25 billion)

The object has H=18.3 suggesting a size around 700 m.

So far there are 45 observations covering a period of about 5 days. This is still very early in the whole tracking process. The uncertainty envelope will shrink as more data is gathered over the next few days. The guys at NEODys actually put a note out on the Minor Planet Mailing List telling observers not to go crazy submitting data for it but to concentrate on getting one or two good measures of it each night for the next week or so. By then the 2009 impact will have been ruled out and perhaps all the others as well.

EDIT:

Update, 2130 (AEST) October 2. The Daily Orbit Update (DOU) released by the Minor Planet Center for October 2 adds about 20 observations and extends the data arc by a day or so. The JPL NEO Risk page has dropped the Virtual Impactor (VI) for 2009, the earliest is now 2026. JPL HORIZONS now shows a nominal approach distance on March 31, 2009 of 0.031 AU (4.6 million km) (3-sigma variation 0.0069 AU - 0.0739 AU, uncertainty in time of closest approach now just over 40 hours, scaling factor to touch the Earth is now 11)

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T14.html

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2008sv11.html

On April 1, 2009, asteroid 2008 SV 11 will approach to 0.0201 AU.

This is 1,868,411.726 miles.

The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 240,000 miles.

Asteroid 2008 SV 11 will approach at least 8x farther than the Moon.

Sorry, but you have been the victim of an early April fool's joke and you should question the validity of your reading source for your information.

I have found very little information on it, but it is an asteroid with that designation. It is greater than -2 on the Palermo Scale so there is a chance it may impact us, but we cannot tell for certain until we have gathered more data on it's orbit

Try this. It shows .02 AU

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008%20SV11;...

well if you think thats funny,read about the one coming in 2029,(friday the 13!) but its more awesome than funny! wikipedia has a little video of it.

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE that will be the happiest day of my life