For Your Astronomers: Asteroid Zipping By Earth On Close-Approach [Watch Live]

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Live cast 9:00 pm EST [2:00 am 18th February in London]

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That looks fun!

 

Also check this out, found it on a site looking into the asteroid. The idea of a Planck star as black holes is very interesting!

 

Astrophysicists duo propose Planck star as core of black holes

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Link: NEO Earth Close Approaches

 

Custom tables (updated daily) showing future and past NEO close-approach data...

 

...Also, a list of historic comet close approaches prior to 2006 is available here.

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Another NEA to be covered live:

 

Link: 2014 DX110

 

Next 5 Mar. 2014, at 21:07 UT, the 30-meters large asteroid 2014 DX110 will made a very close approach with the Earth, reaching a minimum distance of less than 350.000 km, that is 0.9 lunar distances.

 

Of course, this is a very safe distance, but still a very spectacular circumstance, so the Virtual Telescope Project will offer a live, online event sharing real-time images of 2014 DX110 with live commentary by our scientific staff.