Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory to study BL86 asteroid
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, home to one of the world's largest radio telescopes, will try to obtain information on asteroid 2004 BL86 this week, the Caribbean Astronomical Society said.
The asteroid is expected to pass relatively close to the Earth on Monday.
Asteroid 2004 BL86, which has a diameter of nearly 700 meters (2,295 feet), will be about 1.2 million kilometers (745,647 miles) from the Earth on Monday, with the best viewing time around noon (1620 GMT) in Puerto Rico.
The asteroid is traveling through space at 56,420 kph (35,057 mph).
The Arecibo Observatory, which was completed in 1963, is visited by more than 100,000 people a year.
The enormous 305-meter-diameter (1,000-foot-diameter) telescope has been featured in a number of films, including the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye" and the 1997 film "Contact." EF.
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory to study BL86 asteroid
The asteroid is expected to pass relatively close to the Earth on Monday.
Asteroid 2004 BL86, which has a diameter of nearly 700 meters (2,295 feet), will be about 1.2 million kilometers (745,647 miles) from the Earth on Monday, with the best viewing time around noon (1620 GMT) in Puerto Rico.
The asteroid is traveling through space at 56,420 kph (35,057 mph).
The Arecibo Observatory, which was completed in 1963, is visited by more than 100,000 people a year.
The enormous 305-meter-diameter (1,000-foot-diameter) telescope has been featured in a number of films, including the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye" and the 1997 film "Contact." EF.
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