{"id":111959,"date":"2025-09-02T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111959"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:10:29","slug":"111959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111959","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/watch-live-online-as-an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-commercial-jet-passes-within-earth-moon-distance-on-sept-3-video\">Watch live online as an asteroid the size of a commercial jet passes within Earth-moon distance on Sept. 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See live views of asteroid 2025 QD8 ahead of its close approach to Earth later this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"76eb2883-d438-4121-8c18-2ce26e2708ac\">A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here&#8217;s how you can watch the build-up to the flyby live online, courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project.<\/p>\n<p>The near-Earth\u00a0<u>asteroid\u00a0<\/u>designated\u00a0<u>2025 QD8<\/u>\u00a0is expected to pass roughly 135,465 miles (218,009 kilometers) from our planet \u2014 roughly 57% the\u00a0<u>Earth-moon distance<\/u>\u00a0\u2014 at 10:57 a.m. ET (1456 GMT) on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-base\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-widget-id=\"c71ccef9-b538-4638-8e1d-354ba14307a5\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p id=\"76eb2883-d438-4121-8c18-2ce26e2708ac-2\">The Virtual Telescope Project is set to host a free\u00a0<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NS1Fpe3acuQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NS1Fpe3acuQ\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"[Space] Article - Inline Link\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NS1Fpe3acuQ\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"1073978720936623267\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><u>YouTube stream<\/u><\/a>\u00a0covering the flyby starting at 7 p.m. ET (23:00 GMT) on Sept. 2. The stream will feature live views of the asteroid as it approaches Earth, as captured by the organization&#8217;s suite of robotic telescopes in Manciano, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NS1Fpe3acuQ\" title=\"Near-Earth Asteroid 2025 QD8 very close encounter: online observation \u2013 2 Sept. 2025.\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch live online as an asteroid the size of a commercial jet passes within Earth-moon distance on Sept. 3. See live views of asteroid 2025 QD8 ahead of its close approach to Earth later this week. A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-they-made-a-movie-about-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111960,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111959\/revisions\/111960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}