Close approaching asteroid tonight!

From: RICHARD MILES (rmiles.btee@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2008 - 16:14:52 UTC

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    This may be of interest,  I sent a note to our asteroid observers earlier. 
    Although it's not quite an artificial satellite, it's the next best thing 
    when it comes to objects natural.  Maximum angular speed is 10 arcsec/sec.
    
    Richard
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    A rare opportunity exists tonight to observe an asteroid approaching to
    within about 100,000 miles of the Earth.  It was discovered by the Siding
    Spring Survey (E12) just over 24 hours ago and Peter Birtwhistle
    (J95) was first to follow up by contributing astrometry from Great Shefford
    picking it up low in the sky yesterday evening.  Four other observatories
    (Mt. John - 474, Grassland - 651, Catalina - 703 and McDonald - 711) have
    provided further astrometric follow-up.  The positions listed below are good
    for the southern UK.  For other locations, enter coordinates for your own
    location using the MPC facility at:
    
    http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirmRA.html
    
    Richard Miles
    BAA Asteroids and Remote Planets Section
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    Object: 8E4BDB1
    Positions for southern UK (MPC J77)
    Date  UT        R.A.     Dec.    El.    V     "/min  P.A.   Az.  Alt.
    Mar 08 2200   10 02 12 -17 02.0 151.4  13.5   435.1  073.5  344  +21
    Mar 08 2230   10 17 14 -15 55.4 154.6  13.3   469.9  072.3  347  +22
    Mar 08 2300   10 33 13 -14 39.0 157.8  13.1   504.0  071.1  351  +24
    Mar 08 2330   10 50 04 -13 12.5 161.0  13.0   535.8  070.1  354  +26
    Mar 09 0000   11 07 39 -11 36.4 163.7  12.8   563.3  069.0  357  +28
    Mar 09 0030   11 25 48 -09 51.5 165.6  12.7   584.5  068.1  001  +29
    Mar 09 0100   11 44 17 -07 59.4 166.0  12.7   597.7  067.4  004  +31
    Mar 09 0130   12 02 52 -06 02.5 164.8  12.7   601.7  066.8  008  +33
    Mar 09 0200   12 21 17 -04 03.2 162.2  12.8   596.2  066.4  011  +35
    Mar 09 0230   12 39 18 -02 04.5 158.9  12.9   581.7  066.2  015  +36
    Mar 09 0300   12 56 43 -00 08.8 155.1  13.1   559.4  066.1  020  +37
    Mar 09 0330   13 13 21 +01 41.6 151.3  13.3   531.2  066.2  024  +38
    Mar 09 0400   13 29 06 +03 25.3 147.5  13.4   499.0  066.4  030  +39
    
    Predictions provided courtesy of the Minor Planet Center
    
    
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