On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour.  As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the

On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour.  As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the

On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour.  As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the

On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour.  As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the

On January 26th keep your eye to the sky to catch the closest an asteroid will pass Earth until the year 2027. It’s called 2004 BL86, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide, and it travels at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour.  As it zips along it’s orbital path — an orbit lasting about 1.84 Earth years — it will eventually pass by the Earth, getting as close as 745,000 miles away. That might sound pretty far away but it’s about three times the distance from the Earth to the

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The “Messages to Bennu!” microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu’s su

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The “Messages to Bennu!” microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu’s su

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The “Messages to Bennu!” microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu’s su

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The “Messages to Bennu!” microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu’s su

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The “Messages to Bennu!” microchip will travel to the asteroid aboard NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot (500-meter)-wide asteroid. The spacecraft will collect a sample of Bennu’s su