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  • Watch a huge asteroid zoom safely past Earth, 10 times farther away than the moon

    05/26/2022 2:39:09 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 9 replies
    .space.com ^ | Elizabeth Howell
    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...
  • Asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building barreling toward Earth on May 27 [Sorry. Not SMOD]

    05/22/2022 5:44:48 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 36 replies
    livescience.com ^ | Brandon Specktor p
    Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) — or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," meaning it could do enormous damage to our planet if its orbit ever changes and the rock impacts Earth. This asteroid is one of more than 29,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) that NASA tracks each year. NEOs refer to...