25 Oct 2019 - Asteroid

An Asteroid the Size

of a Skyscraper

Just Flew by Earth (Video)

(see urls below)

An enormous asteroid flew by Earth today (Oct. 25), 2019
and you can watch it zip by in a video from the Virtual Telescope Project.

Asteroid 1998 HL1 was 3.86 million miles (6.21 million kilometers)
away from Earth — about 10 times the average distance to the moon
— when it makes its closest approach at 1:17 p.m. EDT (1717 GMT),
according to NASA.

The Virtual Telescope Project, an online observatory
founded by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Bellatrix Astronomical
Observatory in Ceccano, Italy, hosted a live webcast about the asteroid
during the close encounter today.

You can watch a replay here at the Virtual Telescope Project's website.

Video: Giant Asteroid 1998 HL1 Seen by Virtual Telescope Project
Related: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids (Images)


https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998..._H2sav2koDidajcl3wOoV13mBwo0Su32E&jwsource=cl


https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998...LkPlH2QTlOuh_H2sav2koDidajcl3wOoV13mBwo0Su32E