Earth

Yet again Earth will have an asteroid passing by this weekend but not as close as recent flybys. The 80 meter asteroid was discovered last Sunday. The reason for the short notice is due to its size most search telescopes cannot pick it up till it gets near Earth.

The asteroid will be fly by 604,500 miles away from Earth which is about 2 ½ the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The asteroid named 2013ET can be seen at night but only with sophisticated amateur telescopes. At its nearest point it will be in the daytime sky and not visible.

The Russian weather satellite Elektro-L, or Электро-Л in Russian, has captured the highest resolution picture of earth ever taken so far from an altitude of 22,500 miles above earth as it sits in a geosynchronous orbit.

Until recently, Russia had to rely on US and European weather satellites for data in order to make weather forecasts for its residents. In January of 2011, Russia launched the Elektro-L weather satellite, giving Russia its own images of science and meteorology.

Scientists with NASA and Lockheed Martin were able to observe comet C/2011 N3 (SOHO) plunge in a suicide dive towards the surface of the sun with new satellites now in place closer to the sun.

The event happened last July but only now are they beginning to see and understand what happened.

The comet was traveling at a rate of aprox. 1 million miles an hour as it began to reach the 1,000,000-degree Fahrenheit corona.

A NASA satellite has captured an image near the planet Mercury some think is a UFO.

The object in question has not been previously seen in that location, or anywhere nearby. The Heliospheric Imager-1 telescope snapped the picture above on December 1st, 2011. Discovery News says YouTube user siniXster used the U.S. Navy's SECCHI website to gather the images and create a video of the "extraordinary extraterrestrial encounter."