Closest Ever Asteroid to Pass Us This Evening

> If it is coming that close to earth, I wonder if nasa
> could point any of its earth monitoring satellites at
> it. I for one would drool at the opportunity to get a
> picture of an asteroid using a landsat bird or
> anything else with a hyperspectral imager.
>
> Heck, I'd even be happy getting a nice snap at it with
> a GOES satellite's imager and sounder. GOES geosynch
> orbit should be able to see this asteroid go between
> it and the earth.
>
> Also, it would be nice to bombard it with earth based
> radar to probe the innards of the object. Ahh, to
> actually have money to take advantage of such
> occurances...
>
> Ryan Z