Los Angeles Times: Asteroid coming tonight! How to stalk it on the Internet: By Deborah Netburn
If you are one of those people who enjoy things that are out of this world, then you are at the right place. A asteroid the size of a small house will fly past Earth at a really close distance. Do not be alarmed though, for the asteroid may be close, but it is at a distance far enough that it will not have impact on our atmosphere. NASA researchers call this asteroid 2012 TC4. If one wanted to keep in track of when 2012 TC4 will pass by, one can simply just follow JPL's Near Earth Object Office's Twitter feed @AsteroidWatch. One may also go to Spaceweather.com, it give one information about near-Earth and near-Solar space events. Another option would be to subscribe to Tony Phillips to get email alerts about things that go on in the sky for a monthly fee of $6.95 a month.
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