Monday, January 28, 2008

Asteroid Flyby

Courtesy of spaceweather.com:
"Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past Earth this week at a distance of only 334,000 miles (1.4 lunar distances). NASA radars tracking the asteroid confirm that there is no danger of a collision, but it will be close enough for amateur astronomers to photograph through mid-sized backyard telescopes. At closest approach on Jan. 29th, the asteroid will glide through the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia glowing like a 10th magnitude star. Visit http://spaceweather.com for celestial coordinates and a low-resolution radar image of the approaching rock."

If any of you take pictures of this asteroid and would like to post them online, I'd be more than host them for you (give you full credit, of course.)

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