How to Watch a Near-Earth Asteroid Zoom Closer to Earth than the Moon

Live Science ^ | November 9, 2018 06:14pm ET | Laura Geggel

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#4. NOW you tell me!!

[emotionalcripple]

“How to Watch a Near-Earth Asteroid Zoom Closer to Earth than the Moon”

Curled up in a fetal position, sucking my thumb!

[mabarker1]

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[Steely Tom]

If you follow the instructions at the website, you will end up installing something you don’t want, at least if you’re using the Firefox browser.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Not really a catastrophe, but it's stuff like this which causes impact, now *that* can be a catastrophe.

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Near-Earth Asteroid 2018 VX1 very close encounter: live observation

[SunkenCiv]

The Moon's not on the same side of the Earth at this time, but impacts on the Moon have been spotted before.

• Moon's Youngest Crater Discovered [2002]
• NASA Solves Moon Mystery (+Geology Picture of the Week, February 16-22, 2003) [2003]
• Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages [2004]
• A Celestial Collision [2004]
• Giordano Bruno, the June 1975 Meteoroid Storm, Encke, and Other Taurid Complex Objects [2004]
• Comet or Meteorite Impact Events in 1178AD? [2005]
• Landscapes from the ancient and eroded lunar far side [2006]
• Yost Says You're Not Frightened Enough [2009]
• LUNAR IMPACT PLUME [LCROSS team: Moon collision a "smashing success" after all] [2009]
• Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings [2012]
• Bright Explosion on the Moon [2013]
• lunarimpact kw

[ETL]

Just don’t get any asteroids near Uranus.

The only "roids" you need to worry about getting near uranus are hemorrhoids.

[ETL]

I wonder what magnification would be needed in order to actually see the asteroid moving with respect to the background stars?

[ETL]

Thanks for the ping.

[BenLurkin]

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. Sorry that video wasn't a lot better, but the other ones I found were either foreign language, or they were Nibiru/fringe BS kinds of things.

[Redcitizen]

Chuck Norris could do push ups and push the earth away.

[BigEdLB]

If it hits maybe it will hit Teheran