Off-topic: asteroid transit

From: Matson, Robert (ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 12:08:33 PDT

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Hi All,

Using SkyMap, I've discovered a second upcoming asteroid
transit of the sun:

2001 KF54 on 9/13/2001 -- midtransit around 11:30 UT at a
range of ~24 million km.  I suspect 2001 KF54 is far too
small to be visible with even the largest solar telescope.
If it was 1 km in diameter (and I doubt it's that large),
it would only subtend .0086 arcseconds.

Cheers,
Rob




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