An Early Look At The Record-Breaking Asteroid Nearing Earth

On Friday, Feb. 15, a 150-foot wide asteroid is expected come within 17,200 miles of Earth's surface, the closet known approach for a space rock of this size. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be visible through binoculars or a telescope to people in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, as it flies over Indonesia at the time of its closest approach, around 2:25 p.m. on the East Coast. The animated image above, provided by NASA, shows asteroid 2012 DA12 as it was seen from from the Faulkes Telescope South in ...