Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asteroids. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2009

Mini asteroid passing right the frick over Hawaii!*

Asteroid passing over Hawaii

From this article in Sky and Telescope about 2009 DD45, a mini asteroid that's passing between our Earth and its Moon:
...the point of closest approach occurs over the Pacific somewhere west of Tahiti, so the most likely viewers are in Australia, Japan, and maybe Hawaii.
It turns out to be happening basically right now (3:44 AM Hawaii time). So if anyone's up, run outside and look for an amazing spectacle*.

*maybe