Huge Asteroid to Pass Earth Tonight: How to Watch Online
Huge Asteroid to Pass Earth Tonight: How to Watch Online
this should be interesting....
The near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis , which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide, will zoom within 4.3 million miles (7 million kilometers) of Earth during its closest approach early Wednesday morning (Dec. 12). That's too far away to pose any impact threat on this pass, but close enough to put on a pretty good show through top-notch telescopes, researchers say.
And some of those scopes will be tracking Toutatis' movements for the benefit of skywatchers around the world. The online Slooh Space Camera and Virtual Telescope Project, for example, will both stream live, free footage of the asteroid from professional-quality observatories.
Slooh will webcast Toutatis views from a scope in the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa beginning at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) today (Dec. 11). Another show will follow at 10 p.m. EST tonight (0300 GMT Wednesday), with footage from an instrument in Arizona. You can watch them at Slooh's website: http://www.slooh.com.
Both shows will feature commentary from Slooh president Patrick Paolucci and Astronomy Magazine columnist Bob Berman . [ Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space ]
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hey guys. taking it easy over the holidays, but this caught my interest...glad it is "passing" us..lol
Hi Maddad,
Great first article. I hope you don't mind but I put the attached photo into the article.. it was so cool. I will have to tell you how to do it.
It is kind of creepy that these constantly pass us... some of them by not much!
i watched a documentary on the science channel the other day about them....they are constantly whipping around.....makes you want to make the best of right now....
thnx, i think i just spotted the link for the attachments above....
The smaller the body the larger the name ... is that how it works ?
I watched the replay. It looks like, in about 4 + hours they will have another live web cast. Cool. Thanks, Mark. This is great.
Cool; I'll be watching this!
thanks A. Mac. U2.
thnx u for stopping in. i'll be watching too.
me2
Hello Maddad,
Nice to see you here...
u2, thnx!