Don't forget Tuesday night's "close encounter"

[PiedPiper]

Asteroid "YU-55" will be passing within 198,000 miles of Earth Tuesday night,... that's closer than the Moon. And YU-55 is pretty big, too, relatively speaking,..... a quarter mile in diameter. Unfortunately, it will not be visible to the eye, even though skies should be clear.

 

[Bothersome]

Hah. Bummer. I would have liked to see it, provided that we had a clear night over here for once.

Full story: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-332

 

[Coup de Grace]

Interesting... This is the first I'm hearing of this.

 

[paracarl44]

Getting a little to close for comfort. Some day one of these things is going to collide with the Earth.