Historic Celestial Event November 8 2011

A huge asteroid about the size of an aircraft carrier will zoom past our planet next week, flying between the Earth and the orbit of the moon when it flies by on Tuesday (Nov. 8).

The space rock, called asteroid 2005 YU55, poses no threat to the Earth but will be observed by excited astronomers around the world. It's about 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide, round and blacker than coal, NASA scientists said.

At its closest point, asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass Earth at a range of about 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers on Tuesday at 6:28 p.m. EST (2328 GMT). The average distance between the moon and Earth is about 238,854 miles (384,399 km).

"This is particularly exiting since it is the first time since 1976 that an object of this size has passed this closely to the Earth," said Scott Fisher, a program director of the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, in an NSF webchat Thursday (Nov. 3) organized by ScienceNow. "It gives us a great (and rare!) chance to study a near-Earth object like this. In fact, we have several telescopes set up and ready to observe this event already."

Those telescopes include the giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and several NASA Deep Space Network instruments, to name a few.

Astronomers plan to use the telescopes to snap radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 similar to one taken by the Arecibo observatory in April 2010, when the space rock flew within 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) of Earth. Tuesday's flyby, however, is much closer and should allow astronomers to snap more detailed images of the asteroid.

"There is no reason to worry about YU55 getting caught up in the gravity of the Earth," Fisher said. "Through our observations of the object, we know that there is NO chance of it impacting either the Earth or the moon for at least the next 100 years."

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[covertgreen]

i hope that asteroid hits that ms reporter in the cunt.

[rustedthroughoxide]

It had to be that song huh? How fuckin cliche, you should be hit by a big fuckin rock for being so fuckin predictable...

[LoquendoOCIOso0195]

:yaoming:

[sonic619760]

FUCK I MISSED IT!

[cameraman48]

for some reason I thought the asian dude looked like bill maeher... anyone else?

[LoneSoldierRyan]

i missed it :(

[CynicalVision]

Typical Fox, thinking the United Starts is the world.

[Hopeful8811]

Why is he yelling??

[555skooterboy]

did fox news pick this girl up from the corner of duyknowscience Street

[horridedifice]

Michio's left eye....hologram?

[IshnaKabala]

@liquidghost77 This is the 3rd news report I have seen where the reporter starts to say .. " Is going to come close to the unite... uh planet " Guess we'll find out tomorrow