[sleavelessinseattle]

Gotta love a thread that links to Arecibo's big Radio Telescope! Also be SURE to click on other near earth asteroids as it has an asteroidcam view of Earth!

[sleavelessinseattle]

APOD PING... The game of interplanetary billiards is afoot!

[RightWhale]

One of these times we ought to attach an ion motor to one of these and see if can capture it, bring it down to low [not real low] earth orbit.

[WSGilcrest]

Ok, I clicked the "other earth asteroid" link and it said:

In the year 2004, on September 29, the Earth will pass very near Toutatis, closing to within a million miles (4 times the Earth-Moon distance) - the closest approach predicted for any asteroid or comet between now and 2060.

Today's pic says:

Approaching to within about 530,000 kilometers or 1.3 times the Earth-Moon distance 2002 NY40 will definitely not be close enough to pose any danger of collision.

You think it's a misprint, or is this not that exact of a science yet?

[MeekOneGOP]

Explanation: Asteroid 2002 NY40 will fly by planet Earth early in the morning August 18 Universal Time (late in the evening August 17 Eastern Daylight Time).

Reminder to self: Get those binoculars out !

Earth Nears Asteroid Toutatis Credit: E. De Jong and S. Suzuki, JPL, NASA

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Gosh, being somewhat of a naive when it comes to computers, I don't know what to download for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. IT has different things for us to download in order to see the "camera" correctly. But I don't know which one to chose.. ??

Has anyone got an opinion on this? I have a new Dell with a Windows XP operating system.

I don't know if this camera is going to be a live "web" cast, or just pictures that I will have needed to download a program in order to view better. Can anyone suggest what I should do?

Thanks folks. I love this thread btw!!!

[BossyRoofer]

My daughter georgia who is 12 ask, is there any asteroids around the SUN that might be thrown into earth collision by solar plasma ejection? Or is something like that possible?

Great picture and we will be watching.