Shane | September 13 2012 4:46 EDT ForexTV.com (New York) by
Shane Meyer The potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 2012 QG42
will pass by the Earth this afternoon and tonight. The 275 meter
large rock will speed by our planet at a speed of 7 miles per
second at a distance of about 1.5 million miles away. It will
not be visible to the naked eye, but may be watched through the
telescopes of the Canary Island Observatory (begins at 7 PM) or
the Virtual Telescope Project (begins at 6 PM). QG42 snuck up on
astronomers, as it evaded discovery until about a month ago.
"Near Earth Objects have been whizzing past us lately,
undetected until they have been practically on top of us. This
illustrates the need for continued and improved monitoring for
our own future safety," Bob Berman, a Slooh editor and Astronomy
Magazine columnist, said in a statement. "It is not a question
of if, but whensuch an object will hit us, and how large and
fast it may be going." “Remember, the last to strike us blew up
in our atmosphere a mer