The movie, written and directed by Jeff Prosserman, clumsily walks Markopolos through actions that he took years ago, but the rueful man at the center of the film remains an object of fascination.
When he detected the object, Bill Yeung contacted the Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts, the clearing house for such discoveries, which gave it the designation J002E3 and posted it on their Near-Earth Object Confirmation webpage.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is quick to allege ties between people it calls haters and people who use violence against the object of the purported hatred.