This coming Monday is the peak of a close flyby of asteroid 2000 PN9. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2000+PN9
This 2km wide hunk of rock will appear as a Mag 12 object as it sails past just 2 Million miles away from the earth.
Not spectacular, but interesting to watch moving accross the background stars in this close encounter.
No worries Asi, I hope someone can see it & perhaps put together a movie of its progress accross the sky, which I imagine will be quite rapid !
BTW well done in the Photo challenge too
I just knew that someone, somewhere would film this event !
There is a link, to a clip spanning 12 minutes (time lapsed) on spaceweather today. http://www.spaceweather.com/
Pity I had clouds , did anyone else get a look at it visually ?
I'd been hoping to catch it too, as I was reporting on it's fly-boy on the latest Dark Matters podcast, but it's been clouds for a week or 2 here in Brisbane. I've missed comet pojmanski too unfortunately
I downloaded the all the info into the computer, set up the 8", but was completely clouded out, which has been the case for nearly all of the last few weeks.
Thanks for the heads up mate!
, did anyone else get a look at it visually ?
