Asteroid Flyby 334,000 miles from Earth

:wow:

Space Weather News for Jan. 28, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

ASTEROID FLYBY: Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past Earth this week at a
distance of only 334,000 miles (1.4 lunar distances). NASA radars
tracking the asteroid confirm that there is no danger of a collision, but
it will be close enough for amateur astronomers to photograph through
mid-sized backyard telescopes. At closest approach on Jan. 29th, the
asteroid will glide through the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia
glowing like a 10th magnitude star. Visit http://spaceweather.com for
celestial coordinates and a low-resolution radar image of the approaching
rock.

so if we had someone on the moon, they could see it really good :D

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:rofl: :hi:

:P

:hi:

what if they are wrong about it's trajectory?

:shrug:

i have no idea

capturing all the carnage that lasted for say, 85 minutes or so, they could have a successful movie on their hands.