Asteroid 2012 DA14
Posted on February 15th, 2013 by James Higham
Just in case you’re not sure how to track its path:
Live webcast: Asteroid 2012 DA14 from Space Cameras at Clay Center Observatory.
Tracking begins 6.00pm Boston Time (1.00pm UK time) Friday 15th Feb 2013.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/clay-center-observatory
Other tracking sites and further information.
http://earthsky.org/space/watch-february-15-asteroid-flyby-online-in-real-time
[H/T Ian]
And from Haiku – does global warming cause asteroids:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/504744-CNN-anchor-asks-if-global-warming-is-to-blame-for-asteroid?p=9799442#post9799442
Filed under: Earth and cosmos
Does global warming cause asteroids? Interesting question. Technically, yes. And blame nuclear energy too. Its that damned Sun again. If that Sun had not suddenly and totally unexpectedly burst into a firey furnace and scatter shyte all over the place, it could have continued to suck it all in until there were no lumps of rock and stuff left out there.
Blame God too, for designing such a huge firey happenstance just so that we can save on our electricity bills. As it is it is up there spluttering away and defying regular heat output measurements, confusing everyone, and too small now to just sit up there being a nice, cool celestially interesting object for extra Terrestrials to observe from very afar but instead exerts a sort of fatal pull that causes all the left-over shyte to fall toward it, past US !!
That probably explains it.
Now, I don’t know why Chuckles can’t do his own comments [
] but he’s just rushed this latest to me:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/how-to-watch-asteroid-2012-da14/
Ian also weighs in with:
Some good videos here.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html
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