Huge Asteroid to Fly by Earth Thursday: How to Watch Online

[tater1977]

Huge Asteroid to Fly by Earth Thursday: How to Watch Online
By Mike Wall | SPACE.com

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-asteroid-fly ... 21559.html

An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday (June 14), and you may be able to watch it happen live.

The near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there's no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.

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That's what the team running the Slooh Space Camera thinks, anyway. The online skywatching service will train a telescope on the Canary Islands on 2012 LZ1 and stream the footage live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday (0000 GMT Friday).

You can watch the asteroid flyby on Slooh's website, found here: http://events.slooh.com/

[steveo777]

Did we miss it? Thank god it missed us!!!

[tater1977]

Did we miss it? Thank god it missed us!!!

Naw I've got my pilots wings on & will fly it around again ..but slower this time so you can view it ...

[The Sushi Hunter]

Yeah, but it was 3.35 million miles away from earth at the closest it passed. Just a hype article I guess. The one I was paying attention to was the one that happened a number of months ago where it was only within two hundred thousand miles from earth. That one was interesting because it would pass by the earth closer than how far the moon is. It was supposed to pass something like 220,000 miles from earth and the moon is something like 330,000 miles from earth.

As Ralph used to say....."One of these days Alice...one of these days....Pow! Yeah one of these days.