The Virtual Telescope Project's webcast of the flyby starts at 7:30 p.m. ET today (March 25).
Though today's encounter is a close shave astronomically speaking, there's no chance that 2023 DZ2 will hit Earth on this pass. Indeed, astronomers are looking forward to the flyby, for it's a rare opportunity to learn more about relatively large asteroids.
"While close approaches are a regular occurrence, one by an asteroid of this size happens only about once per decade, providing a unique opportunity for science," officials with NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office"Astronomers with the International Asteroid Warning Network are using this close approach to learn as much as possible about 2023 DZ2 in a short time period — good practice for #PlanetaryDefense in the future if a potential asteroid threat were ever...
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