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Space rock that in the length may exceed half a kilometer, will be held from the Earth at a safe distance, but will give to consider themselves in a telescope.
Moscow, June 14. An asteroid the size of a city block will fly in the night from 14 to 15 June near the Earth, giving astronomers a chance to consider itself in all its glory.
Near-earth asteroid 2012 LZ1 has a length of about 500 meters (more accurate estimates range from 300 to 700 meters), and the maximum point of the approach is 5.4 million kilometers, which is 14 times greater than the distance from the planet to the moon.
Due to its size and trajectory 2012 LZ1 qualifies as a potentially hazardous asteroid. However, no danger for the life of earthlings, the experts assure, the space object is not. But to get to the lens telescopes to get has all chances.
In particular, in 2012 LZ1 in real time to track Luggage Slooh Space Camera installed in the telescope in the Canary Islands. Experts will start the broadcast of passage of this great cosmic blocks for all interested users of the Internet at the address events.slooh.com at 00:00 GMT.
Opened 2012 LZ1 was quite by accident on the night of 10 to 11 June astronomer Rob MacNaughton and his colleagues in the telescope Uppsala Schmidt Observatory Siding spring, Australia.
Source: Space.com