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House-Size Asteroid Comes Closer to Earth Than the Moon Friday
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 14143765:MV8yMDE0NTIyXzMzODUyMjczXzQwNjU0NzA4] [quote:ExoPoliChick:MV8yMDE0NTIyXzMzODUxOTUzXzZDQjM2NTg1] I don't think the size of this particular asteroid that is at issue....it is the fact that there are several of them lately.....and a great number of them are very late discoveries. We are obviously in some sort of debris field. [/quote] Or there has always been this many and our detection rates are better lately. [/quote]
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The space rock, called asteroid 2012 TC4, is about 56 feet wide (17 meters) and will come within 59,000 miles (95,000 kilometers) of Earth at its closest point when it zips harmlessly by on Friday. That's about one-fourth the distance to the moon.
But you don't have to wait to see live views of the interloping space rock: There are two live webcasts of the asteroid today (Oct. 11). The Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh Space Camera, two groups that offer live telescope views of space via the Internet, will be providing the asteroid imagery.
The Virtual Telescope Project in Italy run by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi will provide a live telescope view of asteroid 2014 TC4 starting at 3:30 p.m. EDt.
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