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Old 22-07-2008, 04:18 PM
Dennis
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Whoops! Forget my gibberish from the previous post!

2008 BT18 distance from Earth was over 10 LD’s, so being very conservative, let’s put it at 3,780,000kms. Now if I can dredge up some very, very rusty trigonometry, I think that:

Tan ⊖ = Opposite/Adjacent.

Assume a peak to peak separation of 600 metres. Half this is 300 metres.

So we get Tan ⊖ = 0.3/3,780,000 = 0.000000079 degrees

Which is a meagre 0.00028 arcsecs, much, much smaller than my estimate of 4 arcsecs.

Oh well, back to kindergarten for me!

Cheers

Dennis

Last edited by Dennis; 22-07-2008 at 05:14 PM.
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