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Watch Live: JPL Asteroid Flyby Coverage
NASA Television will provide commentary from JPL and real-time visuals as an asteroid flies record-close to Earth starting Friday.
An asteroid flying toward Earth is the plot for a harrowing disaster film, but on Friday it will actually be true.
While the 2012 DA14 asteroid headed our way will not hit Earth, the speeding 150-foot diameter object is anticipated to fly 17,200 miles above Earth’s surface at the closest point, making it “the closest-ever predicted approach to Earth for an object this large,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website.
NASA Television will provide commentary from Pasadena-based JPL starting at 11 a.m. Friday during the asteroid’s nearby flight and the half-hour broadcast will also include live or near real-time views of the asteroid from Australia observatories, weather permitting, JPL noted.
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The commentary can be seen streaming live starting at 11 a.m. Friday in the attached live video coverage, which can also be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 or by going to: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Watch the Asteroid Via NASA
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Near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about 9 a.m. PST and continuing through the afternoon at:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
To watch a feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama starting at 6 p.m. PST go to:
Researchers at NASA and elsewhere will be using the flyby as a chance to study a near-Earth object up close in an effort to understand our solar system’s origins, among other things, NASA noted.
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