But Nye explains to viewers that the seventeen thousand mile distance is deceptive. In fact, “This one will miss us by about 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes’ difference and that’s it.” He says that if didn’t miss it, millions could be dead. “If such a meteor were to hit Atlanta or New York City or Boston, that would be it for those municipalities…It is something that we as humans all over the world ought to get involved in.”

NASA via telescopes in Australia and Europe are providing live streaming video today. NASA.gov and Ustream have teamed up with Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide live streaming video today. Telescopes in California, New Mexico and Puerto Rico will be tracking the data while the Goldstone California telescope is expected to make a 3-D mapping of the arrival, reports NBC.

The frequency of an asteroid this size is roughly every 1200 years, officials tell news. It can create damage over roughly an eight hundred square mile region when striking the earth, and have the energy of a 2.5 megaton atomic bomb as well. The live streaming video is below.

But first at issue is planet PH2 b. Some contend that PH2 b, a giant planet the size of Jupiter, may or may not be habitable. But researchers contend that any moon around PH2 b would probably be habitable. In fact, reps tell news that the relationship between PH2 b and the possibly habitable moon would be comparable to what was shown in the movie Avatar, between the planet Polyphemus and the moon Pandora.

The findings are being published this month in the Astrophysical Journal, officials confirm to news. For more click HERE.

BBC documentary’s director, Christopher Riley, sat down recently with Dean Armstrong. Following the death of Neil Armstrong in August 2012, questions surrounded the origin of the “one small step line” expression. But in the BBC Two news special airing this week, Dean says that the line allegedly was not spontaneously created by Neil on the moon. Rather Dean claims the line was scripted and rehearsed months earlier by Neil Armstrong back on earth.

“He says, ‘What do you think about that?’ I said ‘fabulous.’ He said ‘I thought you might like that, but I wanted you to read it,’” Dean tells BBC tonight.

Neil’s own account of the line is contrary too that of Dean’s allegations. Neil detailed the line’s origins to his biographer James Hansen in his 2005 biography. In “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong”, Neil Armstrong told news that “Once on the surface and realizing that the moment was at hand, fortunately I had some hours to think about it after getting there. My own view was that it was a very simplistic statement: what can you say when you step off of something? Well, something about a step.” He added “It just sort of evolved during the period that I was doing the procedures of the practice takeoff and the EVA prep and all the other activities that were on our flight schedule at the time. I didn’t think it was particularly important, but other people obviously did. Even so, I have never thought that I picked a particularly enlightening statement. It was a very simple statement.”

NASA indicates to news that the Leonid Meteor Shower this year is prompting some confusion about the rate and peak deliveries. The shower this year runs from November 13 to November 21; it is hardly visible at the beginning and the end of that run. But in between, Leonid reaches its peaks on Friday through Saturday, and Saturday through Sunday.

In 2010, experts told news that the peak hour is generally closer to 5:15 am. Many analysts, however, tell news that stargazers should be in position before 3 am with the peak delivery running at least 4 am.

In 2009, the Leonid Meteor Shower surprised news with twenty meteors per hour. That year, news analysts reminded stargazer that few meteor events annually are as predictable, impressive, and as easy to watch as Leonid. A year later, news analysts anticipated fifteen to thirty meteors per hour in America for the 2010 Leonids. But they also anticipated several hundred per hour for Asia.

“From the time of moonset until around 5:15 a.m. when the first streaks of dawn begin to appear in the east the sky will be dark and moonless,” wrote Joe Rao, Space.com skywatching columnist in 2010. “That interval will provide you with your best opportunity to see any Leonid meteors.” On Friday night, NASA told news that a fifteen to twenty per hour predication remains in place for 2012. But because of poor weather conditions, four or five are anticipated per hour.

The Leonid Meteor Shower looks like meteors falling from the constellation Leo. But instead it is really debris from the comet Tempel-Tuttle as it orbits the Sun. Jet Propulsion Lab astronomer Don Yeomans first discovered that connection in 1981. That year, he announced to news that Comet Tempel-Tuttle was producing Leonids.

He also told news that he expected the return of Comet Tempel-Tuttle in 1998 could result in Leonid Meteor Shower annually, for many years. He was right. The biggest recent shower was in 2002 when several hundred comets per hour were spotted. Horace P. Tuttle originally discovered the comet for the U.S. Naval Observatory back in 1866.