Nasa video shows just how close asteroid will come to hitting Earth

DilayMailUK ^ | UPDATED: 10:11 EST, 8 February 2013

[BenLurkin]

U.S. space agency Nasa has released a frightening new video showing just how close a massive asteroid will come to slamming into the Earth next week.

There are just seven days left until the 150ft-wide, 130,000 ton asteroid buzzes past our planet so close its trajectory will take it inside the orbit of communications and weather satellites.

It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size. But scientists promise the threatening space rock come no nearer than 17,100 miles from Earth when it zips past next Friday.

'No Earth impact is possible,' said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

However, he added, its journey through space will bring it so close to our planet that stargazers from Eastern Europe to Australia will be able to see it with just a pair of binoculars.

[Doomonyou]

LoL!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin for both of these.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Rome2000]

Looks like if it hits it will be in the Indian Ocean.

[MagnoliaB]

Strange choice of music.

[Las Vegas Dave]

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

FYI ping list:
28 min NASA video of the Asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby.

[JoeProBono]