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World Snatchers

Wrld Snatchers: Relax, There's a Chance It'll All End Up With a Blast

Relax, There’s a Chance It Will All End Up With a Blast The danger of normalizing something so terminally outrageous is that it makes us all numb, complacent, vulnerable. Suddenly, yesterday’s inconceivable is today’s inevitable, and what we’ve been resisting against for millennia finally breaks through and flips us all into ashes. Take meteorites, for instance – what? you thought we were talking…

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Enorme asteroide se acercará a la Tierra a finales de este mes

Enorme asteroide se acercará a la Tierra a finales de este mes

  Un enorme asteroide realizará a finales de este mes su mayor acercamiento a la Tierra en al menos los dos próximos siglos, según informa la NASA. El asteroide 1998 QE2, que tiene un tamaño de unos 2,7 kilómetros, realizará el próximo 31 de mayo su mayor acercamiento a la Tierra. (more…)

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ScienceCasts: Big Asteroid Flyby

NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able to see the space rock for themselves during the 1st week of June.

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June 7, 2013: Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a new and improved movie clip of near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The 55 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on June 1, 2013.

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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.

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How Big is Asteroid 1998 QE2?

Since Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a named which evokes cruise ships, astrophysicist Rhys Taylor has created this wonderful video comparing the two QE2s. He also has more information on his great blog, Physicists of the Caribbean.

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"We the Geeks" google hangout starting now hosted by the White House to talk asteroids, space and all things cool.

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Let's talk asteroids! Tune in today at 2:00 p.m. ET for a Google+ hangout with NASA and Bill Nye the Science Guy to talk about asteroids.

Watch on WH.gov/We-the-Geeks.