NASA Covers Asteroid’s Flyby of Earth
NASA JPL Asteroid 1998 QE2
During early live coverage on NASA Television and nasa.gov of asteroid 1998 QE2’s flyby of Earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., showed live telescope images of the asteroid and hosted a discussion with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and experts from JPL and the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Goldstone will be using radar to track and image the asteroid. At 4:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 31, the pass by Earth of 1998 QE2, at a safe distance of about 3.6 million miles — is the asteroid’s closest scheduled encounter with the planet for at least the next two centuries. The asteroid was discovered Aug. 19, 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program near Socorro, N.M.
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NASA Covers Asteroid’s Flyby of Earth
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23 Comments
c‑c-c-combo breaker!
Third
Damn i want to work there …
science is so interesting… the space and so on.
Physics, Chemics this natural science stuff is so interesting i love it
Sigh.
ISON.
You know,“7X brighter than our moon, come this November”?
You know, passing SO close to mars that YOU GUYS said its too close to call???
Howsabout some GOOD pics of COMET ISON, besides the crappy bank security camera-request quality ONE photo you guys have shown us so far?????
Records show YOU GUYS look at ISON dozens of times. A day.
Comet ISON.
What’s up wit dat NASA?
An actual living visitor
when will NASA catch that asteroid and capture it to orbit around the moon ? what is the date of that mission
I agree it is interesting. Can’t forget about math. Just keep feeding that interest by reading and applying it.
My “Problem” is that
A: its on as near as it can be and not be called a collision course, with mars, right?
NASA said its going to.pass very close to mars.
Ok, so what exactly does that mean?
And
B: 7X brighter than our moon, and possibly visible during the day???!!!
And THIS thing isn’t being discussed, or followed(publicly) by NASA?
They look at it a zillion times a day, yet they posted one pathetic Dr Who quality pic so far??!!
And I’m talking the 1960’s version of Dr Who.
Her explanaton was all over the place, 1st it’s surface is black yet she kept calling it a star! 2nd,how can she tell what the surface looks like when it’s all lit up like that in the pic?
3rd,don’t the surface of any space rock get it’s burnt surface after having hit some type of friction such as the aptnosphere of some planet or something else?.…She also said that part of it is made of carbon? as in carbon daek star?
unknown. Later this year they will try to figure out what the plan roughly is, after that they have to wait till an asteroid of the right size on the right trajectory passes by, or at least is predicted to pass by. Once they actually know which one they will take into orbit around the moon they can launch the mission to intercept.
So it really depends on when they get a good fit and if they’re ready by then. I guess it will be at least 5 more years for all the R&D + launching.
Day after tomorrow
you left the word “UP” out of the title
Awesome! Really makes you feel its presence. 🙂
thank you for keeping americans up to date with this information. 🙂
Not Americans only. 😉
Maybe they think only Americans speak English.
Americans? hey man, there’s a lot more than just the USA on this planet!
Don’t be silly, Americans speak America.
big up for your job folks!
Asteroids building asteroids
Intelligently controlled ((~/*
generally yes. And your skinless, boneless, spineless jellyfish crawling aliens? I have no reservations, been there , have the t‑shirt, looked at them from my human eye to snake eye.
Why this type of girls presenting this type of very important news where is from sure Chinese