With Jupiter newly struck by a passing comet, many fear that Earth could also soon have a head-on collision with a heavenly body. But don’t fret yet; if an asteroid should come close, you’ll hear all about it on Twitter.
In addition to its main Twitter feed, NASA has just sent its first tweet Asteroid Watch, a Twitter feed to keep you up to date on all the comets, asteroids, and other celestial objects that pose a threat to the Earth. The feed is a companion to the newly-launched Asteroid Watch website, operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The current sole tweet assures us that all is well in the solar system:
We’re going live today, July 29,2009. It’s a beautiful day in the near-Earth neighborhood!
But if you’re looking for recent near-misses, you can also check out Tom Taylor’s lowflyingrocks feed, which pulls data from NASA on objects that have passed within 0.2AU of Earth.
The Real Twitpocalypse: Asteroid Alerts Come to Twitter [Wired]
