<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/516af28b-a620-4316-b195-2b06975c7bb4/FB2D56F2-BE21-491A-807D-B475DCB490A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spaceweather.com/" href="http://www.spaceweather.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spaceweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spaceweather.com/"><P><FONT size="3"><STRONG><FONT color="#ff0000">ASTEROID FLYBY: </FONT></STRONG></FONT> Newly-discovered asteroid <A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008%20EZ7;orb=1">2008 EZ7</A> flew past Earth last night at a distance of only ~100,000 miles. Amateur astronomers Ivan Majchrovic and Tomas Maruska photographed the 18-meter wide space rock racing across the starry skies of Slovakia:</p> <P align="center"><A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/09mar08/maruska1.gif?PHPSESSID=thnv897ok1uvjt4jpop9gg5j41"><IMG width="330" height="159" border="1" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/09mar08/maruska1_strip.gif" /></A></p> <P>The video consists of ten 4s exposures taken through a 2.5-inch refractor. They used <A href="http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08E67.html">this ephemeris</A> to guide their telescope.</p> <P>Normally, an asteroid as small as 2008 EZ7 would attract minimal attention. Even if it hit Earth, the result would be little more than a bright fireball and a sprinkling of meteorites across some uninhabited stretch of our planet. 2008 EZ7 may prove to be more interesting, however; rumor has it that a second space rock provisionally named "<A href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirmRA.html">BJ19377</A>" is following 2008 EZ7 in a similar orbit and will soon make its own close approach. Could this be a twin asteroid flyby? Stay tuned for updates.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FB2D56F2-BE21-491A-807D-B475DCB490A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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