This Is The Asteroid That Didn’t Hit Us

universetoday.com ^ | Jason Major

[BenLurkin]

The video above shows the passage of 2015 ET across the sky on the night of March 11–12, tracked on camera from the Crni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia. It’s a time-lapse video (the time is noted along the bottom) so the effect is really neat to watch the asteroid “racing along” in front of the stars… but then, it was traveling a relative 12.4 km/second!

The description on the video reads:

The asteroid starts as tiny dot just below the centre of the right image and drifts gradually downwards. Due to a software glitch a correction which was meant to bring it back to the centre was not applied and the asteroid was subsequently lost. Nevertheless, the telescope kept tracking at the rate of the asteroid movement, just to illustrate the effect of sky motion. Towards the end, when the asteroid would be too faint again, the clouds rolled in and the observations were terminated. (Source: YouTube)

[BenLurkin]

Impressive tracking, IMO

Asteroid is teeny tiny dot on the video

[BenLurkin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XfI8vy1kuE

[left that other site]

Asteroid Ping!

[nickcarraway]

[Steely Tom]

That is some fine telescope control.

[BenLurkin]

Great tagline!

[Little Pig]

FTA: The asteroid is described as “subway-car sized”. They estimate it would produce an event similar to Chelyabinsk.

[Steely Tom]

Great tagline!

Thanks.

[cuban leaf]

I could not see it, no matter how many times I watched.

[BenLurkin]

I had to expand to full screen and look real close. It is a tiny white dot. Pretty much stays in the center of the screen while the dashes flash past it.

[Verginius Rufus]

Crni Vrh ("Black Peak") is about 20 miles west of Maribor. I have a map that marks it as a scenic spot.

Eric Holder needs to start an investigation into whether the name of the mountain is racist.

[NormsRevenge]

12.4KM/SEC.?

THAat is flat out boogeying!

[Politicalkiddo]

Unfortunate. D.C. needs to be hit by an asteroid.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks left that other site, extra to APoD.

[Kenny Bunk]

Crni Vrh

Somebody please ship these people Vanna White and a coupla vowels. mmdtli

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks left that other site.

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[SunkenCiv]

Since there’s a telescope there, it should be called “Black Peek”.

[BenLurkin]

"Crni Vrh!"

I think that's a Gaelic war cry, isn't it?

[Kenny Bunk]

I think that's a Gaelic war cry, isn't it?

Dnt knw, bt sr svs lts spc!

[Bob434]

why do they call them Hemorrhoids? they should be called asteroids