Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid

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Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 17, 2014 @08:55AM from the best-seats-in-the-house dept.

spineas writes "In case you're not in a prime viewing position for tonight's fly-by of Asteroid 2000 EM26, never fear, for the event will be webcast live for all around the world to see. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Slooh Space Camera will be broadcasting the 3-football-field-long asteroid as it zips by us at nearly 27,000 miles per hour. Astronomer Bob Berman will be answering questions during the broadcast, submitted via Twitter with the hashtag #Asteroid."

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metric, motherfuckers by Hognoxious · 2014-02-17 08:57 · Score: 5, Funny

3 football fields? For those of us in the rest of the world who've abandoned the beta measurement system, what's that in elephants?

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1. Re:metric, motherfuckers by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-17 09:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  3 football fields? For those of us in the rest of the world who've abandoned the beta measurement system, what's that in elephants?
  270 Meters. About 67.5 Elephants.
2. Re:metric, motherfuckers by Hognoxious · 2014-02-17 09:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  African or European?
  
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3. Re:metric, motherfuckers by allcoolnameswheretak · 2014-02-17 09:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In other news, 68% of Americans don't know that there are no native elephants in Europe.
4. Re:metric, motherfuckers by allcoolnameswheretak · 2014-02-17 09:37 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  In other news, an American troll told an American poster to shut the fuck up today, adding "cry baby" as final insult.
5. Re:metric, motherfuckers by JustinKSU · 2014-02-17 11:02 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  ...as it zips by us at nearly 385 cheetahs.
Live Feed by ArcadeNut · 2014-02-17 09:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Here is a live feed of the Asteroid event...

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