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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch an Asteroid Fly by Earth Live on Sunday. Starts in about an hour 4:30 pst
Last edited Sun Jul 22, 2012, 06:29 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/asteroid-flyby-live/http://events.slooh.com/
Watch live this weekend as an asteroid the size of a city block flies past the Earth.
On Sunday, July 22, we will have a live feed from the Slooh Space Camera. The show will start at 4:30 p.m. Pacific (7:30 Eastern) with images from the Slooh telescope in the Canary Islands. For all the latecomers, another telescope in Arizona will start tracking the asteroid at around 8 p.m. Pacific (11 Eastern) as well. Slooh will have discussion with Astronomy magazine columnist Bob Berman, astronomer Matt Francisco from Prescott Observatory, and their own Patrick Paolucci.
The asteroid, known as 2002 AM31 was discovered 10 years ago by Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). It is a fairly large near-Earth asteroid about 3,000 feet wide and will come within about 3.2 million miles of Earth, or roughly 14 times the Earth-moon distance. This comes on the heels of another large asteroid, 2012 LZ1, which flew by at a similar distance on June 14. Because of its size and distance, 2002 AM31 is classified as potentially hazardous, though it has zero chance of hitting Earth.
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Watch an Asteroid Fly by Earth Live on Sunday. Starts in about an hour 4:30 pst (Original Post)
warrior1
Jul 2012
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FarPoint
(12,288 posts)1. I'll be sure to take a peek at this one.
Thank you for the link.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)2. k&r nt
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)3. How cool is that!
Thanks for the heads up! I'll be sure and check to watch its progress.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)4. kick