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Hoping to See Asteroid 2005 YU55? Theres an App for That!
Starmap is an astronomy/planetarium app for the iPhone and iPad. A companion app, called Spacemap is an extended orrery that lets you view the phases, motions, and positions of items in the Universe all from your iPad. If you’re hoping to track down Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it comes close to Earth on Nov. 8, you might want to check out both Starmap and Starmap. You can see this asteroid in both apps, but Spacemap is the only application available in the iTunes store that displays 2005 YU55’s orbit in 3D animation.
Want to win a copy of either Starmap or Spacemap? Universe Today has a two copies of each to give away to the first four readers to answer this question correctly: What year was the last time an asteroid as big as 2005 YU55 passed by Earth (that we knew about)?
Answer in the comment section, and indicate which app you’d like. We have two of each to give away. First four commenters to answer correctly wins. Make sure your contact info on Disqus is correct, as that is you’ll be contacted.
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The Droid platform also has a few meteor/asteroid tracking apps they are 100% FREE! They all use the NASA JPL data too…So tracking this gigantic hunk of space rock just got a whole lot easier…
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vitruviussoftware.bunifish.asteroidtracker
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/org.jtb.neodroid/
Droid Does.
2004 MN4 iphone
1976. iPhone
1976. We tracked one and we didn’t even know it until last minute.
Wow did anyone see that thing scathe by?
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