You can watch asteroid have a ‘very close’ encounter with Earth LIVE this weekend

IF you’ve ever wanted to watch an asteroid shoot past Earth, this weekend is your chance. The Virtual Telescope Project will be live-streaming what it’s calling the “very close” approach of an asteroid. Nasa will also be keeping an eye on Asteroid 2022 ES3 as it makes its close approach. The Virtual Telescope Project livestream […]

IF you’ve ever wanted to watch an asteroid shoot past Earth, this weekend is your chance.

The Virtual Telescope Project will be live-streaming what it’s calling the “very close” approach of an asteroid.

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Nasa will also be keeping an eye on Asteroid 2022 ES3 as it makes its close approach.

The Virtual Telescope Project livestream will start on Sunday March 13 at 6:30pm UTC (1:30pm ET).

Its website states: “Next 13 Mar. 2022, the near-Earth Asteroid 2022 ES3 will have a very close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 334.000 km from the Earth, 87% of the average lunar distance.

“The Virtual Telescope Project will show it to you live!”

You should be able to watch the livestream on the project’s website or on its YouTube channel.

The asteroid is listed on Nasa’s ‘close approach’ list as one of five asteroids that will be shooting past Earth on Sunday.

Asteroid 2022 ES3 will come the closest.

Nasa expects it to come about 205,414 miles from Earth.

This is very close for an asteroid.

The Moon is about 238,900 miles away from us.

If an asteroid comes within 4.65million miles and is over a certain size it’s considered “potentially hazardous” by cautious space agencies.

The good news is the space rock isn’t expected to hit Earth.

It’s only thought to be up to 75 feet wide and should shoot past us at just over 41,000 miles per hour.