An asteroid called 2013 ET is due to pass by Earth Sat. March 9, and if you don't want to stand out in the cold at night plenty of websites will be providing webcasts of the flyby.
The asteroid, which is the size of a city block, was discovered March 3 by the Catalina Sky Survey based at University of Arizona according to Space.com. When the spacerock passes, it will be 2.5 times the moon's distance from earth.
On average, the moon is approximately 238,000 miles from Earth, or 383,000 kilometers according to the report.
Click here to view the live webcast on March 9 at 3:15 p.m.
"No matter how many asteroids approach us, even within a few days, the interest for these intriguing cosmic objects is always very high," Virtual Telescope founder Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist, told SPACE.com. "I believe that these close approaches should be used to increase in the public a correct perception of the real situation, to avoid confusion and false alarms."
A second webcast was supposed to take place today, March 8, but heavy winds and rain forced the Virtual Telescope Project to cancel the live event.
On Mar. 9, the online Slooh Space Telescope will also be providing a free webcast of the asteroid from their observatory in the Canary Islands, which is off the coast of West Africa. The Slooh webcast will also feature a discussion by Slooh president Patrick Paolucci, documentary filmmaker Duncan Copp, and Slooh engineer Paul Cox.
Click here to view the Slooh Space Camera on their website.
"We only have a short viewing window of an hour or so from our Canary Islands observatory on March 9, but we wanted to give the general public a front row seat to witness this new asteroid in real time as it passes by Earth," Slooh president Patrick Paolucci said in a statement.
The 2013 ET asteroid pass comes just a month after two asteroid flybys: the first being when DA14 passed Earth and another when a small meteor exploded near Russia.
"The recent flurry of asteroidal close calls and near misses, including the double whammy of DA14 and the Siberian meteor on February 15, is starting to make our region of space seem like a video game or pinball contest," astronomer Bob Berman, columnist and contributing editor of Astronomy magazine, said in a statement.
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