WATCH LIVE NOW: Mountain-Sized Space Rock is Approaching Earth - UPDATE: The Asteroid Has a Small Moon
BRIGHT ASTEROID FLYBY–TONIGHT: A mountain-sized space rock is approaching Earth for a harmless but eye-catching close encounter on Monday night, Jan. 26-27. The incoming asteroid, named 2004 BL86, will be just 740,000 miles away (3.1 times farther from us than the Moon) and visible in ordinary binoculars.
At closest approach, sunlight reflected from the surface of 2004 BL86 will make it glow like a 9th magnitude star. Amateur astronomers with even small backyard telescopes can see it zipping among the stars of the constellation Cancer. http://spaceweather.com/
Mountain-size Asteroid Glides Past Earth http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/asteroid-2004-bl86-01222015/
Huge asteroid to sweep close on January 26
Asteroid 2004 BL86 will be closer than any known asteroid this large until 2027. How to watch in the sky with telescopes or strong binoculars … or online. http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2004-bl86-to-sweep-close-on-january-26
Updated Charts for Asteroid 2004 BL86 Earth Flyby on Jan 26-27, 2015 http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news188.html
Asteroid to Fly By Earth Safely on January 26-27, 2015 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4441
Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed Earth on Jan. 26, 2015 at 16:19 UTC (11:19am EST). This “movie” of the asteroid was generated from radar data collected on that date by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California. Twenty individual images were used. Radar observations allow scientists to better measure an asteroid’s size, rotation and location.
Radar observations of 2004 BL86 detected a tiny moon orbiting the asteroid.
Image credit: Sky and Telescope http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/asteroid-2004-bl86-01222015/
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