How to watch the asteroid that’s about to get closer to Earth than the moon
Written by
Katherine Ellen Foley
March 01, 2018
Another day, another close encounter with a flying space rock.
Starting around 12:30 am eastern time on Friday, March 2, asteroid 2018 DV1 will be visible as a tiny dot of light whizzing by the Earth. The asteroid, which is about 23 feet across (about as wide as an orca is long), will come as close as 70,000 miles (113,000 km) to Earth. For context, the moon is more than three times that distance from Earth, circling the planet about 238,900 miles away.
https://qz.com/1219318/how-to-watch-asteroid-2018-dv1-get-closer-to-earth-than-the-moon/
