Another Asteroid Passing Earth Tonight

                                                                                                                                                                     Photo: Photos.com

We have a series of visiting asteroids recently. After a one that skirted earth just by 17,000 miles, we have yet another asteroid, about the size of the meteor that exploded over Central Russia's Ural Mountains last month, will be making a close yet safe visit to earth tonight.

Asteroid 2013 EC will be passing by Earth about 246,000 miles away, about 20 times farther out than Asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed by February 15.

The distance makes tonight’s meteor about as far away from us as the moon is — around 1.0 lunar distances. The moon varies between 225,622 miles and 252,088 miles.

The asteroid was discovered on Saturday by astronomers at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, USA.

Read more about it at: Red Orbit
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Meteor witnessed across Britain

Police forces say have they received a number of calls reporting what is believed to have been a meteor.

Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" came in across the north of England and Scotland at about 21:40 GMT amid fears a plane had crashed. The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."

Durham Police said air traffic control had confirmed there had not been any incidents of aircraft in difficulties. A force spokeswoman said: "The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only."

Read more: Global News

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Follow The Quadrantids Meteor Shower Online [LIVE VIDEO]

[ via Mashable ] 4 Jan

If you’re a fan of stargazing, tonight’s your night. The Quadrantids meteor shower, potentially the best natural lightshow of the year, will be visible Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. If you live in the Eastern United States, viewing conditions should be ideal, if a bit frigid.

The Quadrantids meteors should start to appear late tonight, but will only be visible for about six hours. The peak is predicted to be somewhere around 2:30 to 3 a.m., though io9 reports that the Quadrantids meteors are “notoriously unpredictable” in terms of intensity. NASA says it will be a “brief, beautiful” show.

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