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Near Earth asteroid. How to identify?
Friday night I was taking 5min subs of M33 and after midnight a rather bright object started marching across the 2x3 degree field. It took more than an hour to cross the 3 degree wide field.
I could not find any known asteroids using Cartes du Ciel.
Spaceweather.com has a list of current Earth approach asteroids but I could not find one that matched my data, and I can't think of any satellite orbit that could explain the observation. It was moving way too slow for any Earth orbit object and way too fast for a distant asteroid.
Closest approach to M33 was at 12:55AEST (13:55UT).
Can anyone help me track down this object?
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