Posted on 05/26/2022 2:39:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
You can tune in live Thursday and Friday (May 26 and 27) to watch an asteroid barrel past our planet at 10 times the distance of our moon.
The space rock is known as asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) and is four times the size of the Empire State Building. While that's the largest asteroid flyby of 2022 yet, the rock will remain at a perfectly safe distance to our planet. The Virtual Telescope Project will run a webcast of the flyby beginning at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on May 26 and again at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on May 27; you can watch the flyby in the window above or directly through the project's website(opens in new tab).
The asteroid should be bright enough to glimpse in a moderate-sized amateur telescope, particularly from the southern hemisphere, Virtual Telescope Project founder Gianluca Masi noted. The asteroid is roughly 1.1. miles (1.8 kilometers) in diameter and its closest approach is a quite healthy 2.5 million miles (4 million km) away from Earth.
The asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) is technically classified as "potentially hazardous," but that is more a designation based on its relative size (larger than 492 feet or 150 m) and the distance at which the object approaches Earth, among other factors.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
“Next 27 May 2022, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (7335) 1989 JA will have a relatively close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 4 millions of km from the Earth. We will show it live from Chile and Australia, introducing the partnership between the Virtual Telescope Project and Telescope Live.”
Since Earth is “Mostly Harmless”
Why are these “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids” Targeting us ?
Space is Big, Really Mindbogglingly Big there is plenty of room for everything cant we all just get along and Social Distance?
10 X further away would be about 2.5 million miles, that still pretty dang close in space terms.
So it's going into orbit around earth?
Nerds constantly have their panties in a wad.
Kamala, I didn't know you were a FReeper!
I just hope it was wearing a mask
😷😷😷
Astroidpox.
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