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Feb. 15, 2013
Tracking a Space Rock's Streak Past Earth
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 is half the size of a football field, and whizzing towards the Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour. Don't worry, it won't hit us. But on Friday, February 15th it makes its closest approach, scraping by the Earth's surface closer than many satellites. Join Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman for special live coverage of this near encounter, with first-hand reports from astronomers around the world.
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Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
Produced by Denise Chow, Associate Producer
Guests
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Edward Lu
Chairman and CEO, B612 Foundation
Former NASA Astronaut
Palo Alto, California -
Alison Gibbings
PhD Researcher
Advanced Space Concepts Lab
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, United Kingdom -
Eric Anderson
Co-founder and Co-chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Chairman, Space Adventures, Ltd.
Bellevue, Washington -
Gianluca Masi
Bellatrix Observatory
Ceccano, Italy -
Humberto Campins
Science team, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida -
Jonathan Bradshaw
Amateur Astronomer
Samford Valley Observatory
Brisbane, Australia -
Richard Tonello
Astronomy Education Services
Gingin Observatory
Perth, Australia -
Jay Melosh
Distinguished Professor
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
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