How to Watch Tonight's Asteroid Flyby

An unusually large and bright asteroid will fly by Earth tonight, and astronomers believe it will come close enough to be caught on camera, Space.com reports. 2012 LZ1, which was only discovered this week, is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide and, at its closest, is expected to come within 3.35 million miles of Earth, roughly 14 times the distance between our planet and the moon. The team running the Slooh Space Camera will be streaming live footage of the flyby from 8pm ET. Click here for the Slooh website. (More asteroid stories.)