A combination of articles I have run across here and
on another board plus a discussion I had with my
prophecy friend the other night are prompting me to
write this.

First, Nebuchadnezzar's dream was of a statue which
represented from head to toe, the world governments
from his time to the advent.  The feet of iron and
clay are our times.  Somewhere I have read that
Eisenhower meant iron in German and Kruschev meant
clay in Russian; appropriately then, iron would be our
version of democracy as the clay would represent
socialism and communism.  My friend was commenting how
the United States has become much more socialistic in
the last 50 years and Russia has become more
democratic; Europe is also a mixture.  It seems we are
at the time of the iron mixed with clay represented in
Nebuchadnezzar's dream:

Daniel 2:31-45

31"You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great
image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent,
stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32This
image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of
silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33its legs of
iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
34You watched while a stone was cut out without hands,
which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay,
and broke them in pieces. 35Then the iron, the clay,
the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed
together, and became like chaff from the summer
threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that
no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck
the image became a great mountain and filled the whole
earth. 36"This is the dream. Now we will tell the
interpretation of it before the king. 37You, O king,
are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given
you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; 38and
wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of
the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given
them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them
all--you are this head of gold. 39But after you shall
arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another,
a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all
the earth. 40And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong
as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and
shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that
kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.
41Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of
potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be
divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it,
just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.
42And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and
partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong
and partly fragile. 43As you saw iron mixed with
ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men;
but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron
does not mix with clay. 44And in the days of these
kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which
shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be
left to other people; it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
forever. 45Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut
out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke
in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver,
and the gold--the great God has made known to the king
what will come to pass after this. The dream is
certain, and its interpretation is sure."

Then I saw this article on Toutatis here at fivedoves:

http://www.michaelrood.com/mar8-24-04.pdf

All the timing with Toutatis seems coincidental in
this article, and Michael Rood thinks it may signify
the tribulation judgments.  What if Toutatis is also
the "stone (that) was cut out without hands, which
struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and
broke them in pieces" as described in Daniel 2?  That
statue represents the world governments which are
destroyed right before the Messianic reign.  And there
is a stone (asteroid?) that strikes the feet of the
statue which are iron and clay which represents our
time typified by the U.S. government and the Russian
government.