Don Yeomans
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
January 22, 2008
Asteroid 2007 TU24, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT. This object, between 150 and 600 meters in diameter, will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10.3 on Jan. 29-30 before quickly becoming fainter as it moves further from Earth. For a brief time the asteroid will be observable in dark and clear skies with amateur telescopes of 3 inch apertures or larger.
For an interactive illustration of this object's orbit see:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2007+TU24&orb=1
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news157.html
Small piace one of BBC educating!!! film
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/W4q1k28GZ28&rel=1[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W4q1k28GZ28
Asteroid hits Berlin
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/NKwJQNvUs5w&rel=1[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJQNvUs5w
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
January 22, 2008
Asteroid 2007 TU24, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT. This object, between 150 and 600 meters in diameter, will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10.3 on Jan. 29-30 before quickly becoming fainter as it moves further from Earth. For a brief time the asteroid will be observable in dark and clear skies with amateur telescopes of 3 inch apertures or larger.
For an interactive illustration of this object's orbit see:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2007+TU24&orb=1
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news157.html
Small piace one of BBC educating!!! film
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/W4q1k28GZ28&rel=1[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W4q1k28GZ28
Asteroid hits Berlin
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/NKwJQNvUs5w&rel=1[/flash]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJQNvUs5w
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