We present here three extracts from the original video, converted to MPEG format. These segments have been set to run at faster than normal speed so as to compress the action and make it more obvious which object is the asteroid. The boxed numbers are a fiducial reference not in use for this observation and should be ignored. The vertical stripes are an artefact of the intensified system (it's not designed for making videos!).
In the first piece, which covers about 60 seconds of real time and requires 1.7 Mbytes of disk space, the asteroid can be seen towards the top of the screen moving from right to left below a star which is kept stationary in the field. In the second slightly longer extract (90 seconds, 2.7 Mbytes, a few minutes later), the asteroid is in the lower center of the screen, almost directly down from the bright star, and moves off to the left, passing "across" the star in the bottom left corner. In the third and final section (1.2 Mbytes) the asteroid is rather harder to see, moving on the screen below a different star and continuing to the left edge (no doubt you realise that the asteroid is not going to change which way it's moving!). This section has been really compressed, since it represents over two minutes of real time. It was actually taken from the original video a few minutes earlier than the first extract.
The asteroid was discovered during the course of a dedicated detection program for Near Earth asteroids at the Steward Observatory 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak mountain. CR 1995 crosses the orbits of four inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, and is on a highly chaotic and unstable path. Astronomers believe the asteroid will eventually collide with one of these planets or with the Sun, or may be ejected from the Solar System by a "sling-shot" effect. According to Dr. Jedicke, the asteroid, which is only about 200 yards in diameter, will get as close to the Earth as 4.5 million miles, at about 5.00a.m. (MST) on Wednesday, February 22, 1995.
If an object with the size and orbit of CR 1995 were to hit the Earth, it would have an impact velocity of more than 69000 miles per hour. Current impact models suggest this would make a crater about two and a half miles across, releasing energy equivalent to a one thousand megaton bomb.