NASA to Broadcast During Asteroid Flyby
Posted on Feb 14, 2013 09:40:12 AM | John Entwistle | 5 Comments    |
On Friday, Feb. 15, NASA Television will provide commentary from 2 - 2:30 p.m. EST during the close, but safe, flyby of the small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting. The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about noon EST and continuing through the afternoon at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

Also, a Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 9 p.m. EST. To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc.

For more information, including graphics and animations showing the flyby of 2012 DA14, visit www.nasa.gov/asteroidflyby.


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5 Comments so far ( Post your own )
5 On Feb 15, 2013 06:19:59 AM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

Какое счастье !

4 On Feb 15, 2013 04:35:00 AM  tammy  added a comment on your blog post. 

A meteorite weighing 10 tons hit Russia, injuring 400 people!!! How do we know the big one wont hit earth?!!!!?

3 On Feb 15, 2013 01:21:25 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

Do you have information about the meteor that striked cuba?

2 On Feb 15, 2013 01:20:10 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

You still have no information about the one that hit cuba?

1 On Feb 14, 2013 04:45:46 PM  cuvelier  added a comment on your blog post. 

bonsoir pouvez vous me dire si cela pourra se voir dans le ciel et pendant combien de temps merci

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