--- description: A 1,000 foot-wide asteroid, nicknamed “the Beast,” will peacefully travel past earth on Thursday. title: Watch 'The Beast' Asteroid Fly Past Earth in this Live Stream Today image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta901dd5d9f8c234a/6986965913c79f4918192863/asteroid-earth-the-beast1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Space](/tag/space/) ## Space Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch 'The Beast' Asteroid Fly Past Earth On This Livestream Today by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) and [Joan E. Greve](/author/joan-greve/) Jun 5, 2014 5:23 PM CUT  Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.NASA/JPL-Caltech by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) and [Joan E. Greve](/author/joan-greve/) Jun 5, 2014 5:23 PM CUT A 1,000 foot-wide asteroid nicknamed “the Beast,” will travel peacefully past earth Thursday, sailing just three lunar distances from our planet’s surface. The celestial observation network [Slooh will live webcast](http://live.slooh.com/ "undefined") the Beast’s journey beginning at 2:30 p.m. EDT. These rocky celestial objects are fairly common, but the Beast (formally known as HQ124) is notable for its proximity and its immense size. “HQ124 is at least 10 times bigger, and possibly 20 times, than the asteroid that injured a thousand people last year in Chelyabinsk, Siberia,” Bob Berman, an astronomer with Slooh, told [National Geographic](http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/05/watch-as-the-beast-asteroid-sails-past-earth-this-week/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2827442/watch-beast-asteroid-earth/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2827442/watch-beast-asteroid-earth/"},"headline":"Watch 'The Beast' Asteroid Fly Past Earth On This Livestream Today","datePublished":"2014-06-05T17:23:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T11:32:10.927Z","description":"A 1,000 foot-wide asteroid, nicknamed “the Beast,” will peacefully travel past earth on Thursday.","url":"https://time.com/2827442/watch-beast-asteroid-earth/","keywords":["Space","astronomy","NASA","earth","asteroid","live stream"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta901dd5d9f8c234a/6986965913c79f4918192863/asteroid-earth-the-beast1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Joan E. Greve","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joan-greve/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta901dd5d9f8c234a/6986965913c79f4918192863/asteroid-earth-the-beast1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.","caption":"Diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.","creditText":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2827442/watch-beast-asteroid-earth/","name":"Watch 'The Beast' Asteroid Fly Past Earth On This Livestream Today"}}]}] ```