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telescope you can buy or got for christmas and you know exactly where to look i hope nasa has something online about this you probably can see it. it s probably best to just wait for the internet to get the geeks to put the stuff up and you can get a better view. we love the geeks. all right, keith, editor of space.com, thank you. okay, what s your favorite, armageddon or deep impact? what s your favorite movie? deep impact. i do like armageddon. thank you so much. nice to see you. with the movie review and the science. anything morgan freeman plays the president. totally. got it. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. new day is next. . we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i m good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours.
back in 1994, and the reason we re able to know that it hasn t been this close since 1933 is because of the data that we ve been able to pick up on this, on this asteroid. it s well established, this orbit. so we know the exact track it s going to go on, and we know that it won t be this close for another 200 years. look at how big this thing is. 5400 feet, that is nearly four times the size of the empire state building. wow. tyler, thanks for that. all right. let s bring in keith cowling, editor of space raft.com, nasa space biologist. keith, good morning. good morning. this is kind of amazing that we haven t seen anything this close since the 1930s. and we re not going to see it again for 200 years? well, we haven t seen this asteroid this close since the 1930s, but things like this zoom by all the time. gosh, so close. but not too close for comfort in your view? yeah, this is a don t look
up. i saw that. look, nasa is testing a program called dartt, double asteroid dias detroit test. what can you tell us about that? do we have a handle on it, were it to get so close, we re going to do something about it? hopefully. it s going to hit an asteroid about the same size. it is a little moon. what they re going to do is hit it really hard and look very carefully at the moon. and if they ve changed the course, even a little bit, you ll see the orbit change. if that happens, then you know that you can smack one of these things years before it becomes a problem. otherwise, you re getting into sci-fi and nuclear weapons and stuff like that. i m all for smacking these things. if they can figure out the technical way to smack them, that s good. so, keith, is this the kind of thing you can go out in your backyard with your handy dandy telescope and see this with your naked eye? probably not with your naked eye. if you have a pretty small
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