Beginning at 4:30 Pacific (7:30 Eastern) you can watch a live embed feed from the Slooh Space Camera.
The show will start with images from the Slooh telescope in the Canary Island. For all the latecomers, another telescope in Arizona will start tracking the asteroid at around 8 p.m. Pacific (11 Eastern) as well. Slooh will have discussion with their very own Patrick Paolucci, Astronomy magazine columnist Bob Berman, and astronomer Matt Francisco from Prescott Observatory.
The asteroid, known as 2002 AM31 was discovered 10 years ago by Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). It is a fairly large near-Earth asteroid — about 3,000 feet wide — and will come within about 3.2 million miles of Earth, or roughly 14 times the Earth-moon distance. Because of its size and distance, the object is classified as “potentially hazardous,” though it has zero chance of hitting Earth.
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