4179 Toutatis making closest approach

[tomtom]

12th of December, so.... today now lol, 4179 Toutatis is making it's closest approach.

I tried to view it now, got the exact location but can't see it. I guess it's not bright enough. It was brighter in May (I think), according to wikipedia.

Guess my 8" just doesn't cut it :(
Can anyone else see it?

There is going to be a live stream on Slooh if you want to see it.

[Regulus]

SLOOH: http://events.slooh.com/

and The Virtual TV Remotely Controlled Telescopes

http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/

[gaa_ian]

Not to mention the other little space rock gracing our skies ATM
From Spaceweather.com:
"Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 XE54 is flying through the Earth-Moon system today approximately 230 thousand km (0.6 LD) from Earth. The space rock is about 36 meters wide, a little smaller than the Tunguska impactor that leveled 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908."

[tomtom]

Doh! I missed the Slooh event lol
Woke up at the right time but went back to sleep! :(
Looks like there's a third one though.

Reckon we'd be able to see 2012 XE54 through a scope gaa_ian?
Ah, looks like it's too late for that one anyway.