Not really on-topic, but some list readers have telescopes that could see this asteroid. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu> >Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:07:01 -0700 (MST) >Subject: [amastro] Another close asteroid > > There'll probably be some news in the coming day or so about 2001 YB5, >which was discovered Xmas night by the NEAT team. In the coming ten days >it will pass within about twice the moon's distance, brightening to >mag. 12 in the process. At closest approach it will be moving at an >instantaneous rate of about 150 degrees/day! This will definitely be best >for southern-hemisphere observers, although the beginnings of the very >close approach will be visible in the predawn sky from the north. > The current elements and ephemeris are here: > >http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K01/K01Y51.html > >Note that because of the short observational arc and beacuse it is heading >right for us, the ephemeris is likely to change dramatically in the coming >few days. Closest approach is nominally for 2002 Jan 7.2 UT. Note in the >current ephemeris that because of phase effects, by Jan 7.9 UT the >asteroid will have faded to mag. 25, whereas 16h earlier it is mag. 12. > >\Brian ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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