City block-sized asteroid will pass near Earth tonight

[sky otter]

City block-sized asteroid will pass near Earth tonight

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Hey sci-fi junkies and asteroid fanatics! Instead of watching "Armageddon" again tonight, you can direct your gaze to the heavens and watch a real asteroid the size of a city block zip past our planet.

The hurtling space rock was discovered by Australia-based intergalactic space sleuth Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who spied the behemoth through a telescope earlier this week.

Thankfully, they say there's no danger of the up to 2,300 foot wide rock smashing into us, but astronomers operating the Slooh Space Camera are excited that it will pass within 3.35 million miles of Earth, and they're hoping to catch it on camera. You can catch their live webcast here from 8:00 p.m. EDT.

http://now.msn.com/now/0614-asteroid-near-earth.aspx

[Lady Jae]

Thank you, Sky Otter.  A most welcomed change from the drival on TV.

I sincerely hope they're correct in the conclusion there is no danger to Earth 

J

[sky otter]

Hi J
missed your reply..yeah between the critter entertainment and the skywatching who needs tv news..lol

guess this bugger missed us..huh

[zorgon]

Good thing.. 

I don't think that would fit on my shelf   

Well NASA is no help 



http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

They have NOTHING on this one


Someone tell me again... Just WHY are we funding them? 

[ArMaP]

They have NOTHING on this one

It's there, "2012 LZ1".

And a little further down the page you can see that a bigger one is expect on the 21st of June, and at almost half the distance this one was from Earth.

[sky otter]

went looking and found these..wow..new stuff to check out from the Slooh Space Camera
http://events.slooh.com/
then page down