Asteroid FlyBy October 11th and 12th, 2017

The Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and astronomers and observatories around the globe are watching a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 will be used as a test of Earth’s global asteroid defense system.

Check out the article at Earth-Sky: http://earthsky.org/space/near-earth-asteroid-2012-tc4-close-pass-october-2017

Watch2012 TC4 here: https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/

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