Huge asteroid to buzz Earth — and you can watch it free all online!!!!!!lLive again

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Last Edited by Goofy for God on 12/11/2012 01:10 PM

Asteroid Toutatis Fly-By
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[link to events.slooh.com]

Exciting.

[link to www.virtualtelescope.eu]


Live stream

X-37b just completed its launch and live feed is now cut off.

Kinda scary timing of these two events.

I'm getting my space rocks confused.This one seems both larger and further away.

yeswe have 2 days of very busy skies will link my other post on it

earlier today

Thread: Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 XE54 is flying through the Earth-Moon system today!!!!Sky getting crowded this week

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Thanks

what if this thing gets hit by a meteor from the geminid shower O.O

what if it changes course and slows down!!!!!!!!!

Invasion Time.

exactly

lol China has probe there

Believe it or not, a surprise near miss of this sort is not especially unusual. In June 2011, an steroid estimated about 30 feet in size (“2011 MD”) passed by Earth and missed a direct hit by only 7,500 miles. An even closer encounter occurred earlier in 2011 when another small asteroid missed Earth by just 3,400 miles.


[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

Chinese probe to make daring flyby of asteroid Toutatis
[link to astrobob.areavoices.com]

It will also be observed with radar during the December 2012 flyby and potentially during the more distant flyby in 2016.[19] After 2016, Toutatis will not pass close to Earth again until 2069. The resolution of the radar images is as fine as 7.5 m, providing a very detailed model of Toutatis' shape and spin state.

The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 departed from the Sun–Earth L2 point on April 15, 2012 and is en route to the asteroid. The spacecraft is expected to make a flyby of Toutatis on December 13, 2012, at a distance of a few hundred kilometers and at a relative velocity of 10.7 km/s, when Toutatis is near closest approach

most of us will not be alive for the next time
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X-37B gonna piggy back on this one for a very long long trip?

I hope Bruce is on it.

No getting away from it we're living in very scary times ,now if one assteroid hits the other like overgrown billiards it will show 2 things 1.. they might both fall on this planet ,2... they aint got no sense of direction

im scared man

cmon i dont wanna die now

looks like an alien face >_<

I saw the future man on tv say "back when this happened they had tried to stop it but could not!"

I don't think this asteroid has enough mass to capture a space craft. I could be wrong though.

Pour Toutatis!

ok I got a very bad feeling about this noooooooo im so fucking nervous

me too!

Thank you, I was not aware of this.