PLANETCAST: Live Coverage of The Encounter With Asteroid 2012 DA14 and Discussing the Russian Meteor

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Planetary Society Director of Projects Bruce Betts is joined by Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society, and Jaime Nomen, co-discoverer of 2012 DA14 at La Sagra Observatory, for this special presentation of the close encounter of the asteroid.

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[Nick Ken]

He was talking of prograde / retrograde acceleration of the asteroid on its closest point to the sun, maximizing the amount of time it would take for the asteroid to get through its apsis, and thus, missing the Earth.

[kitchenaut]

People ignore those who have to use CAPS to make their point. It demonstrates a lack of confidence in what they're actually saying so they overcompensate. The asteroid did not hit, and would not have ended our civilisation, so why the hell are you spouting this bronze age drivel?

[Mary Rosales]

Can the space station view this?

[Mary Rosales]

This laser shot is all remote controlled?

[Mary Rosales]

Does Hubble trac it?

[Mary Rosales]

Do you know its orbit? Or is it in space after it leaves us?

[tangent123456]

Your retard level is highly disturbing.

[D13GOX3]

hey hey are you guys already stoping it some how already becouse its coming bak and just a few more years like you say instead of just lookig at it i can look at it so make misles to stop em instead of making rockets to creat a war