Awww it's raining out and I missed my chance to see it! It was viewable
with a telescope with a magnitude above 10!
That would have been pretty cool.
Monroe
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Subject: [AR] u-oh ! return of Phaeton
From: "John Dom" <johndom@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, December 16, 2017 4:14 pm
To: "(AR) ocket List" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Size 5 km dia. asteroid rock zipped by today at a distance of about 10 times
the distance of the Moon if I got that right.
Damage to be expected with impact, anybody? Calculation of impact energy
(angular, mass and velocity data): astronomers should know.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3200_Phaethon>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3200_Phaethon
John
