Billion-ton comet may have narrowly missed Earth in 1883

BadAstronomy doesn't seem to think so:<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/17/did-a-fragmenting-comet-nearly-hit-the-earth-in-1883-color-me-very-skeptical/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/17/di...</a>