SCIFI CLASS 3: Asteroid 2012 DA14's Friday Flyby

This Friday February 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football feild will make a close encounter with Earth, "...the 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 will be just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) from Earth — the closest encounter with such a large space rock that researchers have ever known about in advance."

For this Friday's class I am going to try and plan a field trip to the UNO observatory to watch this awesome event. If not we will meet at Sycamore at 6pm and go up to City Park and stargaze. Bring maps, telescopes, clipboards, papers, and pens. A writing workshop may occur on this mysterious night...

What if the asteroid did hit Earth?