A just discovered Near Earth asteroid (discovered June 10-11, "just discovered" don't you love that) will fly by tonight...
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.
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).
2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers' radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
Researchers estimate that the space rock is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide (300-700 m). On Thursday evening, it will come within about 3.35 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) of our planet, or roughly 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Since this report came from FoxNews I'll be fair and balanced. If this hit earth... liberals and conservative would be toast (how's that for fair and balanced?)
Send up Bruce Willis & Aerosmith to take care of it! Interesting and just a little bit scary. 3 million miles is a short distance to measure in our solar system.
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It's from FOX? I'm sure they made it all up to keep their funding rolling in. lol
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