http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/huge-asteroid-fly-safely-earth-monday-watch-it-live-n32051
Huge Asteroid to Fly Safely By Earth Monday: Watch It Live
An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush of Earth on Monday (Feb. 17), and you can watch the flyby in a live webcast.
Near-Earth asteroid 2000 EM26 poses no threat of actually hitting the planet, but the online Slooh Space Camera will track the asteroid as it passes by Earth on Monday. The live Slooh webcast will start at 9 p.m. ET (0200 Feb. 18 GMT), and you can also watch the webcast directly through the Slooh website. (You can participate in the broadcast by using the hashtag #asteroid to ask questions during the 2000 EM26 show.)
You can also watch the asteroid broadcast live on Space.com. Scientists estimate that 2000 EM26 is about 885 feet (270 meters) in diameter, and it is whizzing through the solar system at a break-neck 27,000 mph (12.37km/s), according to Slooh. During its closest approach, the asteroid will fly about 8.8 lunar distances from Earth. [See photos of potentially dangerous asteroids]
"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids — sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox said in a statement. "Slooh's asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with Slooh members using the Slooh robotic telescopes to monitor this huge population of potentially hazardous space rocks. We need to find them before they find us!"
2000 EM26's flyby comes almost exactly a year after two major near-Earth object (NEO) events on Feb. 15, 2013. That day, as scientists were tracking the extremely close pass of the 98-foot (30 m) asteroid 2012 DA14, another, unrelated space rock unexpectedly exploded above Chelyabinsk, Russia, causing substantial damage to buildings that injured more than 1,000 people with falling glass.
Pieces of the Russian meteorite will be awarded to seven gold medal winnerson Saturday at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
— Miriam Kramer, Space.com
This is a condensed version of a report from Live Science. Read the full story.
Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow Spacedotcom on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
•Photos: Russian Meteor Explosion of Feb. 15, 2013
•Asteroid 2012 DA14 Photos: Earth Flyby of Feb. 15, 2013
•Asteroid Basics: A Space Rock Quiz
another opinion and stuff
http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail14/story155487/massive-asteroid-heading-towards-earth.html
Massive asteroid `heading` towards earth
Feb 16, 2:38 pm
London, Feb 16 (ANI): A massive and 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will supposedly be passing by earth soon.
The asteroid, dubbed 2000 EM26, which is the size of three football fields and is travelling at over 27,000 miles per hour, has been deemed a near miss by NASA, the Daily Star reported.
The event will be broadcasted live the online observatory website Sloosh via YouTube.
A post on the website claims that on February 17th, a near- earth asteroid will come racing by Earth on its close-approach. (ANI)
2000 EM26, Sloosh, YouTube, earth Defunct Russian reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth on Sunday Feb 16, 11:51 am
Washington, Feb. 16 (ANI): Portions of Russia's defunct Kosmos-1220 satellite might come crashing back to the planet on Sunday.
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/download.cfm
Asteroid Watch Widget
JPL's Asteroid Watch Widget tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The Widget displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter. The object's name is displayed by hovering over its encounter date. Clicking on the encounter date will display a Web page with details about that object.
The Widget displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.
Available for Mac OS X Dashboard and Yahoo! Widgets.
Note: As of 1/1/2013, widgets that have already been downloaded MAY continue to operate but they cannot be updated as "Yahoo" no longer supports them. Mac OS X Dashboard widgets seem to function properly though.
› How to download and install the widget
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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
RECENT CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers
Object
Name Close
Approach
Date CA
Distance*
(AU) CA
Distance*
(LD) Estimated
Diameter** H
(mag) Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2014 CF13) 2014-Feb-10 0.0246 9.6 27 m - 59 m 25.0 15.26
(2006 DP14) 2014-Feb-10 0.0160 6.2 460 m - 1.0 km 18.8 27.13
(2013 BS45) 2014-Feb-11 0.0317 12.3 18 m - 39 m 25.9 3.76
(2014 BT43) 2014-Feb-11 0.0252 9.8 19 m - 42 m 25.7 11.27
(2014 CA3) 2014-Feb-12 0.0864 33.6 38 m - 85 m 24.2 6.31
(2014 CB3) 2014-Feb-12 0.0227 8.8 16 m - 36 m 26.1 7.55
(2014 CG13) 2014-Feb-14 0.0775 30.1 89 m - 200 m 22.4 11.81
(2007 BG) 2014-Feb-14 0.1476 57.5 330 m - 750 m 19.5 7.99
(2014 BQ43) 2014-Feb-15 0.0548 21.3 60 m - 130 m 23.2 15.38
(2014 CB13) 2014-Feb-15 0.0526 20.5 15 m - 33 m 26.3 5.62
* Close Approach (CA) Distance is the distance between the Earth center and asteroid center.
** Diameter estimates based on the object's absolute magnitude.
QuoteThe mammoth asteroid set to fly by Earth last night just disappeared
Last night, a giant asteroid was supposed to streak by the Earth, close enough for us to catch a glimpse as it zipped by. Except it never showed, and now astronomers say they have no idea just where the 900-foot asteroid has gone.
So, just how does one misplace an asteroid the size of three football fields? The most likely explanation is that its orbit was miscalculated. Even with its current whereabouts unknown, the near earth asteroid poses no present danger to Earth — in fact, if anything, its loss indicates that 2000 EM26 is probably further out in space that was originally thought.
http://io9.com/the-mammoth-asteroid-set-to-fly-by-earth-last-night-jus-1525397161
Mammoth and giant turn out to be much smaller than I imagined.
rose
maybe it had cloaking devices for when it got to close to crazy humanoids ;)
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Do asteroids actually "DISAPPEAR?? if we had actually identified this to be an "incoming object", I do wonder if we did enough evaluation to actually identify it as an asteroid? Or, did someone just assume that anything moving in space is automatically some sort of an asteroid type object??
Asteroids do not have a warp drive to go to, do they? And just disappear?
Well, as some have suggested, maybe "our just watching it" has caused its "quantum particles" to just go away!! ;)
The final say of where this "asteroid" is will be interesting.
hey i did post this a few days ago.. you were even supposed to be able to watch on line
now reading those posts would be interesting..lol
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=6237.0
Huge Asteroid to Fly Safely By Earth Monday
« on: February 17, 2014, 12:40:39 PM »
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/huge-asteroid-fly-safely-earth-monday-watch-it-live-n32051
Huge Asteroid to Fly Safely By Earth Monday: Watch It Live
An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush of Earth on Monday (Feb. 17), and you can watch the flyby in a live webcast.
Near-Earth asteroid 2000 EM26 poses no threat of actually hitting the planet, but the online Slooh Space Camera will track the asteroid as it passes by Earth on Monday. The live Slooh webcast will start at 9 p.m. ET (0200 Feb. 18 GMT), and you can also watch the webcast directly through the Slooh website. (You can participate in the broadcast by using the hashtag #asteroid to ask questions during the 2000 EM26 show.)
You can also watch the asteroid broadcast live on Space.com. Scientists estimate that 2000 EM26 is about 885 feet (270 meters) in diameter, and it is whizzing through the solar system at a break-neck 27,000 mph (12.37km/s), according to Slooh. During its closest approach, the asteroid will fly about 8.8 lunar distances from Earth. [See photos of potentially dangerous asteroids]
"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids — sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox said in a statement. "Slooh's asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with Slooh members using the Slooh robotic telescopes to monitor this huge population of potentially hazardous space rocks. We need to find them before they find us!"
2000 EM26's flyby comes almost exactly a year after two major near-Earth object (NEO) events on Feb. 15, 2013. That day, as scientists were tracking the extremely close pass of the 98-foot (30 m) asteroid 2012 DA14, another, unrelated space rock unexpectedly exploded above Chelyabinsk, Russia, causing substantial damage to buildings that injured more than 1,000 people with falling glass.
Pieces of the Russian meteorite will be awarded to seven gold medal winnerson Saturday at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
— Miriam Kramer, Space.com
This is a condensed version of a report from Live Science. Read the full story.
Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow Spacedotcom on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
•Photos: Russian Meteor Explosion of Feb. 15, 2013
•Asteroid 2012 DA14 Photos: Earth Flyby of Feb. 15, 2013
•Asteroid Basics: A Space Rock Quiz
ok had to go look it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCFWUemLzM0
http://www.ibtimes.com/asteroid-2000-em26-lost-space-885-foot-wide-asteroid-fails-show-projected-1556438
Asteroid 2000 EM26 Is Lost In Space: 885-Foot Wide Asteroid Fails To Show Up As Projected
By Charles Poladian
as you may have heard, a near earth asteroid, 2000 EM26, was supposed to orbit around Earth on Monday. With all eyes set on the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, PHA, 2000 EM26 failed to show up, and Slooh has put an all-points bulletin to find the wayward object.
Slooh called the loss of a PHA as a bit "spooky," and asteroid 2000 EM26, with a diameter of 885 feet, roughly three football fields, has been quite elusive since its discovery. According to broadcast, the asteroid was discovered in 2000 and was observed 32 times but has not been seen since March 14, 2000.
Slooh, an international team of observatories, was set up at its Canary Islands observatory to monitor asteroid 2000 EM26's close approach to Earth. The live stream started with a discussion of the one year anniversary of asteroid 2012 DA14's flyby and the Chelyabinsk meteorite. But over the hourlong broadcast, the asteroid known as "Moby Dick" failed to appear.
Space agencies and astronomers track asteroids soon after they are discovered. NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's Near-Earth Object Program was established to monitor asteroids like 2000 EM26. According to JPL, asteroid 2000 EM26 was supposed to make its close approach to Earth on Saturday at a distance of 8.8 lunar distances. Each lunar distance is approximately 238,900 miles.
Asteroid 2000 EM26 was supposed to appear somewhere in this image frame but did not show up on Feb. 17. Slooh
According to the broadcast, asteroid 2000 EM26 has an orbit of 269 days but was not seen ahead of its close approach. Losing asteroids is pretty unusual as their trajectories and orbits get refined through multiple observations.
Michael Paolucci, CEO of Slooh, said in a statement, "We are calling on amateur astronomers to find this asteroid, and as a reward we will promote their accomplishment on our homepage for one year."
Astronomer Bob Berman and Slooh technical director Paul Cox says the disappearance of asteroid 2000 EM26 points out the need to continue observing and tracking near-Earth asteroids. Better observations can lead to the discovery of potential threats much earlier. For example, residents of Chelyabinsk, Russia, could have been warned of the meteorite explosion, which might have led to fewer injuries.
Charles Poladian Twitter Google Plus RSS Charles Poladian joined IBTimes in October 2012 and, when not reporting on all things topical, can be found reading or photographing concerts.
cross reference to here
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=6260.msg87206;topicseen#new
Well, I had to run this "missing asteroid" thread down! When i got read to post this reply, it would not go! :))
Yes, I remembered you posting about this earlier.
While this asteroid does have some size, it would seem to me that it wouldn't take much change to its orbit to bring it direct into Earth. 8.8 lunar distances is very little orbital distance change, if the change were made from a considerable distance from Earth.
I wonder where astroid 2000 EM26 was when Comet ISON was piercing through Solar System space - could ISON or some other similar object cause the astroid's path to change?. Or I wonder what the affect a 1.7 million mile per hour solar shockwave (or any solar shockwave) might have upon the orbit of an asteroid of this size, if the two just happened to cross paths? :)