Tonight, asteroid 2013 EC will reach a minimum distance from the Earth of about 380.000 km, almost the distance of the Moon. We offer a free, last minute live session on www.astrowebtv.org. The session...
Registrazione evento online del 15 febbraio 2013, in occasione del passaggio dell’asteroide 2012 DA14. Una collaborazione tra “Ansa Scienza&Tecnica” e “Virtual Telescope Project”. Back to “Podcast” page Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support...
asteroid / event / near Earth
Last night, asteroid 2012 DA14 did its exceptional close passage, reaching on 15 Feb. at 19:25 UT a minimum distance of about 27500 km from the surface of our planet. The Virtual Telescope planned...
While the world is waiting for asteroid 2012 DA14 later today, something spectacular happened in Russia a few hours ago (about 15 Feb. 2013, 03:30UT), above the city of Chelyabinsk. A very bright fireball...
asteroid / event / near Earth
Questa carta mostra il percorso nel cielo dell’asteroide 2012 DA14 la sera del 15 Febbraio, così come visibile da Milano, Roma e Palermo. Le posizioni sono state accuratamente calcolate tenendo conto degli effetti dell’attrazione...
asteroid / event / near Earth
The map above shows the path in the sky of asteroid 2012 DA14 around its very close approach, next 15 Feb. 2013. Positions are calculed for an ideal observer sitting at the center of...
1997 was an important year for the Virtual Telescope history. That year, at Fall, asteroids became one of the favorite scientific topic at the observing site now hosting our project. At that time, there...
At the end of June 2011, our planet was brushed by a little (7 to 15 meters in diameter) asteroid, 2011 MD. It reached a minimum distance for the surface of our planet of about...
After its relatively close encounter with our planet (at 15 millions of km from the Earth) , potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis was imaged again at the Virtual Telescope, using the 17″ robotic unit, to...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
As our visitors well know, the Virtual Telescope Project and its team reserve a special attention to those asteroids closely approaching our planet. This in true in two different ways: at one side, the...
At about 36 hours from the minimum distance (15 millions of km from the Earth) , potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis was imaged again with the Virtual Telescope, this time using the 17″ robotic...
The Virtual Telescope observed the potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis several times over the past few days and finally, using a set of images captured on Jan. 4, it was possible to make this...
The Virtual Telescope is continuing tracking the interesting and famous potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis. It will reach a distance of 15 millions of km from the Earth on Jan. 2013, with no risks...
The famous potentially hazardous asteroid (99942) Apophis is on its way to reach the minimum (but very large to be safe) distance of 15 millions of km from us in a few days. The...
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