From the description, “Obama” would be a great name for it. Here’s what I wish the prediction would read:

“A small, newly-discovered asteroid named 2008 Obama is approaching Earth and chances are better than 50.8% that it will hit. Steve Chesley of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates that atmospheric entry will occur on November 4 over North America to the Red States. Measuring only a few meters across, the space rock poses no threat to people or structures on the ground, but it should create a spectacular fireball, releasing about a kiloton of TNT in energy as it disintegrates and explodes in the atmosphere. Asteroids of this size hit Earth every few months, but this is the first time one has been discovered before it hit.”