Asteroid Watch - Huge Asteroid Fly - By This Evening - How to Watch Online

[C. Flower]

Via mashable -

An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth June 14, and you may be able to watch it happen live.

The near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there’s no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.

That’s what the team running the Slooh Space Camera thinks, anyway. The online skywatching service will train a telescope on the Canary Islands on 2012 LZ1 and stream the footage live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday.

You can watch the asteroid flyby on Slooh’s website.

2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers’ radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

Researchers estimate that the space rock is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide. On Thursday evening, it will come within about 3.35 million miles of our planet, or roughly 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

http://mashable.com/2012/06/14/watch...teroid-online/

Not sure what "Thursday evening" means - Does anyone have an idea when to watch from Ireland, or anywhere else ?

[fluffybiscuits]

with some luck it might hit Iniesta and Torres

[Count Bobulescu]

Via mashable -



http://mashable.com/2012/06/14/watch...teroid-online/

Not sure what "Thursday evening" means - Does anyone have an idea when to watch from Ireland, or anywhere else ?

I think Mashable is now owned by CNN so 8pm EDT would be 1am Irish on the 15th. If it were European time it would be ECT I think.