Asteroid is Buzzing Earth’s Tower Today

Posted July 23, 2012 by Johnny2x in Science

No need to find Bruce Willis and send him up to space to drill into the asteroid to blow it up or set it off course. We are safe…for now.

In case you didn’t know Space has it’s own website, check it out it is pretty awesome: Space.com

This graphic plots the orbit of the near-Earth asteroid 2002 AM31 through the solar system. The city-block size asteroid will fly by Earth July 22, coming within 17 lunar distances to the planet.
CREDIT: NASA/JPL

Asteroid Flies By Earth Today: How to Watch Online

A city-block size asteroid will fly by Earth today well beyond the orbit of the moon, and you can watch it zip safely by live in an online webcast.

On Sunday, the Slooh Space Camera sky watching website will host two live webcasts to offer Internet denizens views of the space rock from telescopes at the Prescott Observatory in Arizona and the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa.

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