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Slooh to Livestream Colossal Near-Earth Asteroid Star Party
Tuesday, April 28th, 7 PM EDT | 23:00UTC |
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WASHINGTON DEPOT, CT - April 28th, 2020 If you’re a science reporter, you may already know what Slooh is. For the rest of you, Slooh is a remote learning platform that teaches students and amateur astronomers to explore space via a network of online robotic telescopes. Slooh was the first to livestream celestial images in real-time. We partner with schools worldwide to provide this service, and it’s available to the public at www.slooh.com. Quarantine Special: In response to the global quarantine and shutdown of schools, Slooh.com launched a new Student Membership tier for just $20 per year, and as low as $10 per student per year when purchased in quantity by school groups. This matters to your readers because we partnered with the National Science Foundation and school systems worldwide to provide guided learning, allowing students, amateur astronomers and space enthusiasts to take part in research and discovery while learning scientific reasoning in a fun and engaging way. Many people live in light-polluted cities where they cannot see much of the night sky. We take them outside that bubble, and we need your help sharing this space mission with your readers! Near-Earth Asteroid Star Party Livecast Slooh’s next mission is to livestream a Star Party featuring live telescope streams of the colossal Near-Earth Asteroid “1998 OR2” as it whizzes past Earth on Tuesday. The Star Party commences on Tuesday, April 28th, 7 PM EDT (23:00UTC). The general public can watch on Slooh’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. Slooh members can personally join the Star Party at Slooh.com using Zoom to discuss the event with each other, and Slooh’s experts will be on hand to answer questions. Slooh’s Chief Astronomical Officer, Paul Cox, said: “Near-Earth Asteroid ‘1998 OR2’ is humongous - it’s 2km (1.2 miles) in diameter and travelling at an astonishing 19,461mph! Slooh members have been tracking this Goliath-of-a-space-rock over recent weeks as it approaches Earth using Slooh’s robotic telescopes in the Canary Islands and Chile.” He said: “There's no chance of the asteroid impacting Earth as it whizzes by at a distance of 6,290,365 kilometres (3,908,651 miles) tonight, but that is a mere stone's throw in astronomical terms - especially for a space rock of this size!” Because of its size, and how close it can get to Earth, it is also classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid. On this approach, it's close enough for large radio telescopes to observe it, so we now know its size and shape with a high degree of accuracy. During the Star Party, viewers will be able to watch the live streams and snap photos of NEA 1998 OR2 from Slooh’s huge telescopes at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Slooh members held their first global Star Party on April 27th when they watched in amazement as they saw the International Space Station flash across the face of the Sun using Slooh’s highly specialized Solar Telescope at its flagship observatory at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands. Event Details Event Timing for Tuesday, April 28th, 2020: Live Stream Commences: 7 PM EDT ¦ 23:00UTC Live Stream Ends: 8 PM EDT ¦ 00:00UTC TO WATCH Slooh’s live coverage: https://www.slooh.com/shows/video-viewer/650 SHARE the Facebook Live event from Slooh’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SloohLive/ To Embed the Slooh Livestream TO EMBED Slooh’s coverage into any website: Visit our YouTube Event page and then click "Share" below the video and then select "Embed" to get the embed code to insert into your webpage. If you embed our livestream, you must adhere to the following: Slooh owns all copyright to the text, images, photographs, video, audio, graphics, user interface, and other content provided on Slooh live broadcasts. Slooh may run ads before, during, or after any broadcast. The following copy must be included in the page where the broadcast is embedded: “Visit Slooh.com to snap and share your own photos from this live event, and interact with our hosts and guests, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes.” “Courtesy of Slooh” must be located adjacent to the feed with a link back to www.slooh.com. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/slooh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SloohLive/
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