Near Earth Object (86666) 2000 FL10 motoring south

[bkm2304]

Hi all,

This is an animation from last night taken over 17 minutes of Near Earth Object, (86666) 2000 FL10 heading south. It is moving at 3 Deg per day and will reach -80 Degrees in mid - November, fading as it goes.

At closest approach it was approx. 24 million km.

....and it did not annihilate the planet as suggested by the English and US Tabloid screamers!

Celestron C11 with Hyperstar (F2) and Nikon D7000. 20 S exposures @ ISO 1600.

Richard

[Somnium]

that thing is really shifting ! well captured

so you are saying that we don't need to send Bruce Willis and his fleet of oil drillers to blow this sucker out of the sky ?

[bkm2304]

Apparently not. And we don't need to crank Tommy Lee Jones out of retirement either.......for now.:D

[rustigsmed]

fantastic!

[andyc]

24 million km? not 2.4million, or 0.24million, or even 0.024million?? And the tabloid screamers were screaming because...

Ah. yes. Of course Because Murdoch rags and tabloids the world over make sh*t up to scare people into buying their toilet paper!


Very nice animation Richard, good catch :thumbsup:

[Nico13]

Yep well done, another one to keep an eye out for is 3729835 and that'll be coming past on the 31st at 1.3 Lunar distance and it's a big guy at 290-650 metres in size. Should make a good capture if it comes past at the right time.

See here http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news190.html
It's a Halloween pass so they've called the great pumpkin.

[astronobob]

Check that lil' sucker going - what a ripper :thumbsup:

Grouse work Richard :thumbsup: