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Asteroid 2014 KH39 Zips Just 1.1 LD from Earth – Watch it LIVE June 3
Near Earth asteroid 2014 KH39, discovered on May 24, 2014, is the faint ‘star’ in the crosshairs in this photo made on May 31. The telescope tracked the asteroid, so the stars are trailed. A satellite trail is visible too. Credit: Gianluca Masi
Got any plans Tuesday? Good. Keep them but know this. That day around 3 p.m. CDT (20:00 UT) asteroid 2014 KH39 will silently zip by Earth at a distance of just 272,460 miles (438,480 km) or 1.14 LDs (lunar distance). Close as flybys go but not record-breaking. The hefty space rock will buzz across the constellation Cepheus at nearly 25,000 mph (11 km/sec) near the Little Dipper at the time. Observers in central Europe and Africa will have dark skies for the event, however at magnitude +17 the asteroid will be too faint to spot in amateur telescopes. No worries. The Virtual Telescope Project, run by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, will be up and running with real-time images and live commentary during the flyby. The webcast begins at 2:45 p.m. CDT June 3.(…)
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