Hi, The asteroid folks at the MPML are discussing a recently discovered object, for the moment going by the designation RK252A5, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey. It is in an orbit with a semi-major axis of 1.03 AU with an inclination of only 0.24 and believed to be not a true asteroid. Instead, it could be an artificial object (space junk). It visited the vicinity of earth earlier around 1991. Bill Gray has posted preliminary orbital elements here: http://www.projectpluto.com/mpec.htm These are still subject to change as the observational arc is still small. Timely updated efemerides can be found here: http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/SpaceJunk/SpaceJunk.html Object is in reach of telescopes from say 25-30 cm and larger. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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