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Watch near-Earth asteroid 2014 KH39 close fly-by today
A 22 meters wide asteroid named “2014 KH39″ will make a very close approach with the Earth on June 3, 2014, reaching a minimum distance of less than 440 000 km (1.14 lunar distances, 438 460 miles). The closest approach is expected at 20:07 UTC today.This is a very safe distance, but still a very spectacular circumstance and the Virtual Telescope Project will offer us a live, online event sharing real-time images of the asteroid along with live commentary by their scientific staff.The online, free session will start at 19:45 UTC. This asteroid is comparable in size to Chelyabinsk asteroid which exploded over Russia on February 15, 2013.The orbit of 2014 KH39. Yellow shows the portion of its orbit above the plane of Earth’s orbit (grey disk); blue is below the plane. Im… Read more »
Source: http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/06/03/watch-near-earth-asteroid-2014-kh39-close-fly-by-today/
