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Asteroid that buzzes earth won’t be seen in Colorado Posted By
Jim Bates On February 14, 2013 @ 8:15 pm In Sky watching | No
Comments Friday is the long-waited day (well, awaited since the
asteroid was spotted about a year ago) when a rock labeled
2012-DA14 comes closer to the earth than any sizeable asteroid
has in decades. The asteroid is about half a football field
across and will pass inside the orbit of some man-made
satellites. (But it will still be more than 17,000 miles away —
more than twice our planet’s diameter.) The asteroid will be
visible from earth, but not from Colorado because it will be
daytime. The best viewing will be in Indonesia, although it will
also be seen (clouds permitting) in Asia, Australia and Eastern
Europe. The closest approach will be at 12:24 p.m. MST, over
Sumatra. Experts are unanimous that it will not hit earth. If it
did, it would probably have caused something like the “Tunguska
Event”  of 1908, in which a 100-f