[LVAS] Asteroid Viewing

[Shawn Mann]

Too bad it's been cloudy for a month now!



On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Fred Rayworth <rayworth1969 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Thanks for the info!
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> Fred
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> From: ThommKatt69 at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:21:39 -0500
> To: lvas at lvlug.org
> Subject: [LVAS] Asteroid Viewing
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> *February 9 *- Asteroid 2009 UN3 Close Approach. This asteroid is just
> under a kilometer in size and will pass within 14.5 times the distance from
> the Earth to the Moon. is should be visible in moderate or larger size
> telescopes near the border of the constellations Lepus and Columba. It will
> be a little easier to see in the southern hemisphere, where it will have an
> apparent movement of 50 arc seconds per minute, nearly fast enough to see
> the movement in the telescope.
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