QE2 asteroid will fly by Earth Friday

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QE2 asteroid will fly by Earth, stay safe 3.6 million miles away at closest approach on Friday


QE2 is set to sail … at thousands of miles per second.

An asteroid more than 1½ miles long — with the same name as the famous cruise ship — will zoom past Earth this week from a far-off distance.

The big rock is called Asteroid 1998 QE2 officially, and it will make its closest approach Friday. It will keep a safe distance of 3.6 million miles, or 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. You won’t be able to see it without a powerful telescope.

read more:
www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/28/qe2-asteroid-will-fly-by-earth/

[baydoll]

Hi Popcorn!

The last time an asteroid passed over us (February of this year), Russia (and several other countries) got hit with a massive fireball.

[popcorn]

Hi Baydoll!

Keep your eyes looking up. I wander if the federal reserve named this asteroid. Quantitative easy 2.

[baydoll]

May 30, 2013 13:25:22 GMT -5 popcorn said:

Hi Baydoll!

Keep your eyes looking up. I wander if the federal reserve named this asteroid. Quantitative easy 2.

Good one! ;D

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Approaching Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/30may_asteroidmoon/

May 30, 2013: Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the evening of May 29th (May 30th Universal Time) when the asteroid was about 6 million kilometers from Earth