A asteroid the length of three football fields will come close to earth Monday night.
A live stream will be available on Slooh.com, and Space.com beginning at 9 p.m. as the rock makes its return following two appearances of tow other space rocks Feb. 15, 2013.
"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids - sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox, technical and research director at the Slooh Community Laboratory said in a statement Fox News reported. "Slooh's asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with Slooh members using the Slooh robotic telescopes to monitor this huge population of potentially hazardous space rocks. We need to find them before they find us!" Cox said in the statement.
According to Fox News, the asteroid named 2000 EM26 is not a harm to crashing into Earth. The rock measures 885 feet, and can travel through space at 27,000 mph according to the Slooh Community Observatory Fox News reported. Scientists predict the asteroid to approach within 8.8 lunar distances from Earth Fox News reported.
"On a practical level, a previously-unknown, undiscovered asteroid seems to hit our planet and cause damage or injury once a century or so, as we witnessed on June 20, 1908 and February 15, 2013," Bob Berman, an astronomer at Slooh said in a statement Fox News reported. "Every few centuries, an even more massive asteroid strikes us - fortunately usually impacting in an ocean or wasteland such an Antarctica," Berman said in the statement. "But the ongoing threat, and the fact that biosphere-altering events remain a real if small annual possibility, suggests that discovering and tracking all NEOs, as well as setting up contingency plans for deflecting them on short notice should the need arise, would be a wise use of resources," Berman said in the statement."
Viewers will hear analysis from physicist Mark Boslough, and be able to pose inquiries during the livestream.
