Asteroid arrives today for extra-close flyby

Science | 206928 hits | Feb 15 8:29 am | Posted by: Hyack

A 130,000-tonne asteroid will fly closer to Earth today than any other object its size or larger has ever been predicted to come ï¿½ without making a landing.

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by DrCaleb
Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:44 pm
Some good info here:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/ ... flyby.html
by Gunnair
Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:48 pm
"DrCaleb" said
Some good info here:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/ ... flyby.html

Don't think we'll have weather to see it. I'll have to be content with the comet next month and potential super duper comet in November.
by raydan
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:01 pm
by DrCaleb
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:34 pm
"Gunnair" said
Some good info here:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/ ... flyby.html

Don't think we'll have weather to see it. I'll have to be content with the comet next month and potential super duper comet in November.

Won't be visible in North America anyhow. It's moving south East to North West, from AUS to the UK across the Indian Ocean.
by DrCaleb
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:45 pm
15 Minutes to closest approach!

Live feed:
by BartSimpson
Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:07 pm
I wonder if Vladimir Zhirnovsky suspects that 2012 DA14 is another one of America's sooper-sekret weaponized asteroids?

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