[Closed] Asteroid 2012 DA14

Presuming you're in the UK then Eastwards from 20:00 I think

Incommming! If I'm going to get wiped out by an asteroid I want it to be called the SuperBastardBlastorama**** or something not bloody 2012 DA14, how boring!These space-geeks don't have give them tedious names.

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I think it said look near the North East horizon through a pair of binocs 🙂

What kind of angle upwards, there's a bloody gurt hill East of us?
I'd like to look the instrument of my destruction square in the eyes.
They have said it will miss us to stop us panicking - anyone seen CMD this past 24 hours?

Oh god I just realised I utterly miss named this thread should be - "Asteroid 2012 DA14 Will I Die?"

I am so embarrassed...

What tyres for climbing impact crater walls?

Have you not seen one Hollywood disaster movie? these things usually come with a preemptive warning that everyone ignores. It spat bits at Russia earlier. hhm? eh?.. just saying..

OK, so this one's not particularly close in Earth terms (but very close in cosmological terms).

What I want to know is how close an object could get and NOT hit the Earth? I guess it depends on the size of the object...?

According to the local news, you need to be looking in the direction of the Plough, at about 9.30. With binoculars...

I think the advice is to look east, should be about 30 degrees above the horizon by 2030

shows the path of the asteroid, should pass through the plough at around 2130. You'll need binoculars or a telescope apparently. And clear skies, obviously.

From universe today.com:
http://www.universetoday.com/99865/asteroid-2012-da14-observing-prospects-and-how-to-see-it/

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Anyone seen it? Have just spent 10 mins staring at a variety of indistinct blobs through binoculars in the area of thesky where it's supposed to be, whilst worrying about being arrested as a peeping tom. Gave up and bought some beer from the offie and went home.

can't see it,...but there is a full moon in the back bedroom of number 67...

Anyone seen it? Have just spent 10 mins staring at a variety of indistinct blobs through binoculars in the area of thesky where it's supposed to be, whilst worrying about being arrested as a peeping tom.

Same here. Seems it's a fine line between stargazing and standing about in your garden at night like a spare prick 😕

Didn't bother, lots of cloud to the east when it was supposed to be visible. Bloody typical! 🙁

26 v 29?