Watch the live streaming of the fly by of the Spooky Halloween asteroid @12:30 eastern

[FLPanhandle]

http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/tracking-spooky-the-halloween-asteroid


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/28/how-to-watch-a-ghoulish-asteroid-narrowly-miss-earth-on-halloween/

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

Several hours before children dressed in their Halloween finery knock on your door, a newly discovered large asteroid dubbed 2015 TB145 offers a cosmic treat.

Zipping across the heavens at a blistering 78,000 miles per hour, the asteroid hurtles by the Earth on Saturday, Oct. 31 – at a relatively close yet safe distance – at about 1:05 p.m., according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. It was discovered only weeks ago, on Oct. 10.

The close approach on Saturday will be about 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the moon, or roughly 300,000 miles away from our own planet.

“The last approach closer than this [from an asteroid approximately the same size] was by 2004 XP14 in July 2006 at 1.1 lunar distances,” says NASA.

Without any intervening discoveries, a larger asteroid named 1999 AN10 will pass close to Earth – at about one lunar distance, or 238,000 miles – in August 2027, NASA says.

[Tipperary]

1. This, right here, is why I love the du.

I learn so much here that I would never know about otherwise.