[AZ-Observing] 2004 XP14 close approach
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amastro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:15:23 -0700 (MST)
This is a head's up to mention that the asteroid 2004 XP14 will
be passing close to Earth in the coming days. It will become as
bright as mag 11 for several hours centered at about 10h UT for July 3.
It will be in the far northern Milky Way moving at several arcseconds
per time-second, so ought to be readily distinguishable in a medium
sized telescope.
Because of the close approach, you'll have to get topocentric
ephemerides for some location near you (meaning within a few thousand km
radius on Earth). Among the choices for such are the Minor Planet Center's
own site:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
...which allows input of long/lat as well as observatory codes,
or the Lowell one:
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/cgi-bin/koehn/asteph
...which shows a list of locations of observatory codes.
You can also try the JPL site for the object:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2004XP14
...which has links to generate an ephemeris. The default geocentric
ephemeris will not be good enough to find it, however.
\Brian
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