06/09/2015 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

Potenially Hazardous Asteroid (1566) Icarus: geocenric star chart

asteroid / near Earth / Potentially Hazardous Asteroid / star chart

06/09/2015

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (1566) Icarus rare close encounter: star chart (16 June 2015)

Next 16 June, the famous, 1.5 km large potentially hazardous asteroid (1566) Icarus will make a relatively, but rare close encounter with the Earth. The Virtual Telescope Project will show it live, online, to...

Near-Earth asteroid 2015 LF: an image (8 June 2015)

asteroid / event / free / near Earth

06/09/2015

Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 LF extremely close encounter: a stunning image (08 June 2015)

On 8 June 2015, at 23:49 UT, the 15 meters large near-Earth asteroid 2015 LF made an extremely close, but safe, encounter with our home planet, coming within 200.000 km. At Virtual Telescope we...