A “potentially hazardous” asteroid approximately the size of three football fields will pass by the Earth on Monday, February 17, 2013 at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The online Slooh Space Camera will track it as it passes,
A massive asteroid is scheduled to make its way past Earth Monday night. Scientists advise it will not make contact with our planet, while amateur astronomers will be able to watch its flight online.
Remote controlled telescopes operated by SLOOH on the Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, will cover the asteroid's closest approach to our planet, which occurs at 4:59 p.m. EST. You can catch the live coverage
Slooh's flagship observatory on Mount Teide in Spain's Canary Islands was iced over and unable to record live images of the asteroid, Paul Cox, Slooh's technical and research director, said on the one-hour webcast, but pictures were received from a
The Slooh webcast had expected to use images of Asteroid 2000 EM26 from its observatory located on Mount Teide in the Canary Islands. However, The Slooh Observatory 'iced up' and was unable to record live images of the asteroid. Pictures have been