[guide.chat] 11.28 a m 8 november news asteroid

From: "vanessa" <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:38:31 -0000
The approaching asteroid (not pictured) is about 1,300ft wide
8:26pm UK, Friday November 04, 2011A huge asteroid is set to pass closer to 
Earth than the Moon next week - becoming the biggest space rock to do so in 35 
years.. 
The circular asteroid, named 2005 YU55, is about 1,300ft wide and will pass at 
a distance of 202,000 miles.
The time of the nearest fly-by is expected to be at 11.28 GMT on Tuesday, 
November 8.
The encounter will be the closest by an asteroid of that size since 1976 and a 
similar event will not happen again until 2028.
However, anyone hoping for a glimpse of the enormous rock will need a telescope.
Scott Fisher, from the  National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical 
Sciences. , said it will be "pretty faint when it flies by".
He said: "It will not be visible to the naked eye. You will need a telescope 
that has a mirror at least six inches in size to see it.
Asteroid to miss Earth on 8th of November 
The asteroid will be the biggest to pass between the Earth and Moon for years
"To make it even more difficult to observe, it will be moving very quickly 
across the sky as it passes."
The asteroid was first discovered in 2005 by Robert McMillan from the 
Spacewatch Project, a solar system scanning group of scientists near Tucson in 
Arizona.
It is part of a mass of 1,262 large asteroids measuring more than 500ft across 
circling the Sun which  Nasa.  classifies as "potentially hazardous".
But there is no danger of it coming close to Earth. The nearest pass it is due 
to make, based on current estimates, will come in 2094 when it will be 167,000 
miles away.
Astronomers who have studied the object say it is very dark, like the colour of 
charcoal, and quite porous.
National Science Foundation astronomer Thomas Statler said: "We want to study 
these asteroids so, if one does look like it may hit us someday, we'll know 
what to do about it."
Don Yeomans from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory added: "The observations will 
give us a piece of the puzzle, one we don't get many chances to see.
"At one time, we thought these were the asteroids that delivered carbon and 
other elements to the early Earth, so they are pretty important." 



Vanessa The Google Girl.
[guide.chat] 11.28 a m 8 november news asteroid

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