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Huge asteroid set to buzz Earth

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A giant asteroid will make a flyby of Earth over the next few days, and armchair astronomers can watch the action live on their computers. The near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis, which is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide, will zoom within 4. 3 million miles (7 million kilometers) of Earth during its closest approach early Wednesday morning. That's too far away to pose any impact threat on this pass, but close enough to put on a pretty good show through top-notch telescopes, researchers say. And some of those scopes will be tracking Toutatis' movements for the benefit of skywatchers around the world. The online Slooh Space Camera and Virtual Telescope Project, for example, will both stream live, free footage of the asteroid from professional-quality observatories. Space news from NBCNews.

People:

Toutatis

Overall Sentiment: 0.146169

Relevance: 0.9076

Berman

Overall Sentiment: 0.236008

Relevance: 0.87455

SentimentQuote
0.107603"Slooh technical staff will let the public follow this fast-moving asteroid in two different ways. In one view, the background stars will be tracked at their own rate and the asteroid will appear as an obvious streak or a moving time-lapse dot across the starry field," Berman said ...
0.105438"In a second view, Toutatis itself will be tracked and held steady as a tiny pointlike object, while Earth's spin makes the background stars whiz by as streaks," Berman added. ...
0.0713837"In a second view, Toutatis itself will be tracked and held steady as a tiny pointlike object, while Earth's spin makes the background stars whiz by as streaks," Berman added. "Both methods will make the asteroid's speedy orbital motion obvious as it passes us in space."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2844247
  • Mean: 0.094808233333333
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Alan Boyle

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.564734

Patrick Paolucci

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.537936

Bob Berman.

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.454538

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Facility: International Space Station

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.690974

GeographicFeature: Mount Everest

Overall Sentiment: 0.0673639

Relevance: 0.648872

GeographicFeature: Canary Islands

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.595536

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StateOrCounty: Arizona

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.546288

Disambiguation: Location | PoliticalDistrict | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | USStateReferences:

Continent: Africa

Overall Sentiment: -0.0357379

Relevance: 0.530499

Company: Slooh

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.59012

PrintMedia: Astronomy Magazine

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.529329

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