DA14 Asteroid visual tracking site - LIVE links

my shockwave crashed, and when I opened back up, it is there, now showing 28,284 km at closest, maybe I was half asleep...

Imaging the asteroid right now...

Teehee possible, another thread was mentioning an unstable tectonic plate and possible breakup and volcanos erupting, we will find out soon enough

Were the meteorites in Russia 'companions'? Can we not see the smaller ones??

Are you sweating?

What time is the closest approach?Spaceweather says 7.30 Slooh says 14 hours from now.

Well it's a lovely clear day in the UK, you can even see my penis

6.2 KM/s = 22320 KM/hr

9 Hr x 22320 ~ 200000 KM

Impact Time 7-9 Hrs from now

cool thanks!i dont binocs or a scope , im on the eastern side so i probably wont get to see much,its pretty clear sky wise though

dont *have

I believe the early time is when it will start to become visible to us southern hemisphere guys, the observatory camera goes live in approx 10 hrs which I expect is when its going to be around its closest.
I think slooh is just wrong or using a dif timezone.
The standard timing should be in UTC time which seems to confuse a lot of people.

I put approx times on first post

DA14 hit Earth?

OP, Please estimate the chances

Thanks OP.

I think DA14 is a no, but good chance of debris as a nice fly by to put on a show.

Last Edited by I didn't push the button on 02/15/2013 06:53 AM

debris the size of vw vans...

Asteroid distance from the Earth's surface: 173128 km
Approaching Speed: 6.2 km/s
Fri, 15/02/2013 23:04:30 aest
Fri, 15/02/2013 12:04:30 utc


and sleepy time for me down here in Aus, back when the alarm goes off.

No but some of his little sister and brothers might.

Thread: Meteorite crash in Russia, Explosions in Chelyabinsk HD

Right!? I was just playing with that site and it goes right over Russia, those Russian meteorites were companions????

thanks nasa, I would've gone home... if I survive and find you...

I'll find you in the afterlife.

No. I just saw imaged it in a telescope in Australia.

No. The meteor in Russia was traveling in a completely different direction. Not only did it hit a northern latitude, but it came from the direction of the sun which is why it wasn't seen beforehand.

[link to maps.google.com (secure)]


Playing with this site shows the exact path for DA14..

[link to www.satflare.com]

Map of explosions in Russia:

[link to maps.google.com (secure)]


Playing with this site shows a nearly exact path over Russia for DA14..

[link to www.satflare.com]

I've done my own analysis of the orbit, thanks. By the time it's over Russia it's already headed away from the planet.

so is this asteroid still n schedule?

CNN just had one of NASA's folks on there. According to them this wont even be near the satellites. In fact it will be on the outer area, and no wheres below them?? How many times are they planning on changing their minds on this?? Where before it was going to go between us and the satellites?? Are we all missing something here? Then they were talking like they were the ones that found this asteroid. Thought that was Spain?? What they can't remember anything today??

There's 2012 DA14:
[link to i319.photobucket.com]
I took this picture just a short while ago, after the meteor hit. You can see 2012 DA14 as a small white streak right in the center of the image. It's right where it should be.
[link to nova.astrometry.net]