Garver Google+ Hangout. NASA public domain image colelction.

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver participates in a live "We The Geeks" Google+ Hangout hosted by the White House to talk about asteroids, Friday, May 31, 2013 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. An asteroid nearly three kilometers wide will pass by the Earth today at 3.6 million miles away. Garver is joined in the conversation by Bill Nye, Executive Director, Planetary Society; Ed Lu, former astronaut and CEO, B612 Foundation; Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources and Jose Luis Galache, Astronomer at the International Astronomical Unions's Minor Planet Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)