NASA plans to provide a live broadcast and commentary Friday during the close “fly by” of a small near-Earth asteroid.
The asteroid, named 2012 DA14, will make its closest approach at 11:25 a.m., when it will be about 17,150 miles above the Earth’s surface, according to NASA.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena starts at 11 a.m., and 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.
Scientists expect the asteroid to zoom past the planet and not have any impact on Earth.
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