{"id":162024,"date":"2025-12-01T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:34:08","slug":"asteroid-433-eros-will-pass-close-to-earth-and-you-can-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162024\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 433 Eros will pass close to Earth, and you can watch it live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many events occur in space, allowing scientists and astronomers<\/a> to observe them in different ways. But tonight, an asteroid that has been known for over a century and has greatly contributed to our understanding of the universe will pass close to Earth<\/a>, and you will be able to observe it live. <\/p>\n

433 Eros may not mean anything to you, but it is a very important asteroid<\/a> for scientists. Discovered in 1898 by Auguste Charlois and Carl Gustav Witt and measuring 16,89 km in diameter, this celestial object has been studied for a long time.\u00a0In 2001, NASA\u2019s NEAR Shoemaker mission allowed a probe to orbit and land on this asteroid for the first time in order to study it.\u00a0And that’s not all, because more than 160,000 images were taken, revealing a surface dotted with craters. <\/p>\n

Since then, numerous studies have been conducted on this celestial object resembling a peanut, and it also serves as a reference for new discoveries in order to understand the behavior of various asteroids, such as 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>.\u00a0And tonight, it will pass about 60 million kilometers from Earth<\/a>, which is small compared to the size of the universe, and you can watch this event live. <\/p>\n

A live broadcast will be available starting at 20:00 UTC, and you will be able to see a white dot moving next to the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth. But if you want to see it with your own eyes, you can use an amateur telescope<\/a> or binoculars and look towards the neighboring galaxy, Messier 31<\/a>. However, you will need a clear sky and a low light pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many events occur in space, allowing scientists and astronomers to observe them in different ways. But tonight, an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[106541,106538,7871,17228,20815,4645,768,93603,3146,106536,94471,5434,769,761,4960,106537,106540,106539,86899,3323,3180,106542,767,111,139,760,69,770,766,762,763,147,3145,392,3929,765,764],"class_list":{"0":"post-162024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-433-eros","9":"tag-andromeda","10":"tag-asteroid","11":"tag-asteroids","12":"tag-astronomers","13":"tag-astronomy","14":"tag-benchmarks","15":"tag-binoculars","16":"tag-earth","17":"tag-eros","18":"tag-galaxie","19":"tag-galaxy","20":"tag-graphics-card","21":"tag-laptop","22":"tag-live","23":"tag-live-stream","24":"tag-m31","25":"tag-messier","26":"tag-messier-31","27":"tag-nasa","28":"tag-near","29":"tag-near-shoemaker","30":"tag-netbook","31":"tag-new-zealand","32":"tag-newzealand","33":"tag-notebook","34":"tag-nz","35":"tag-processor","36":"tag-reports","37":"tag-review","38":"tag-reviews","39":"tag-science","40":"tag-solar-system","41":"tag-space","42":"tag-telescope","43":"tag-test","44":"tag-tests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}