Friday, May 31, 2013

How to watch the giant asteroid sail past Earth today - Mother Nature Network

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How to watch the giant asteroid sail past Earth today
Mother Nature Network
A huge asteroid is set to cruise by Earth Friday, May 31, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will come within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) of Earth at 4:59 p.m. EDT (2059 GMT) Friday — about 15 times the distance from our planet to the moon. There's no chance the 1.7-mile-wide (2.7 km) 1998 ... The space rock's name is not an homage to England's Queen Elizabeth II, or to the famous ocean liner. Rather, it's just the moniker assigned under the ...

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