Asteroid Hunters Stalk 2005 YU55 — LIVE from Keck Observatory, Hawaii At 6:38 p.m. ET on Tuesday, a 400-meter wide asteroid made its closest approach to Earth, passing below the orbit of the moon. Although asteroid 2005 YU55 came no closer than 201,000 miles from our atmosphere, this is the largest near-Earth object on record to come so close to our planet. As the asteroid glides away peacefully, continuing its orbit around the sun, Keck Observatory astronomers will continue to track the object, streaming the event live from the Keck II Remote Operations room in Kamuela, Hawaii. The feed — shown below — will go live at 7 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (9 p.m. PST, midnight EST). LIVE FEED

Asteroid Hunters Stalk 2005 YU55 — LIVE from Keck Observatory, Hawaii

At 6:38 p.m. ET on Tuesday, a 400-meter wide asteroid made its closest approach to Earth, passing below the orbit of the moon. Although asteroid 2005 YU55 came no closer than 201,000 miles from our atmosphere, this is the largest near-Earth object on record to come so close to our planet.

As the asteroid glides away peacefully, continuing its orbit around the sun, Keck Observatory astronomers will continue to track the object, streaming the event live from the Keck II Remote Operations room in Kamuela, Hawaii. The feed — shown below — will go live at 7 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (9 p.m. PST, midnight EST).

LIVE FEED

Source: news.discovery.com

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    I forgot about it but was awake till like 1 am DANG IT BRAIN
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    And I didn’t even feel anything! …We must’ve all died and are now in some sort of afterlife.
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  28. speshuled said: There’s one coming even closer in 2028. It will pass at about half the distance to the moon. This one is 85% of the distance to the moon.