[AZ-Observing] Re: Asteroid 2014 RC update
- From: "Richard Harshaw" <rharshaw2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:58:10 -0700
Great work, Brian! Thanks for the update.
Richard Harshaw
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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Skiff
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 3:52 PM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Asteroid 2014 RC update
Despite the apocalyptic weather forecast this weekend, which Phoenicians
finally received this morning, the Lowell asteroid team was able to get
lightcurve data on this very-near-Earth asteroid on Saturday night.
Newly-arrived postdoc Audrey Thirouin, myself, and Lowell asteroid maestro Nick
Moskovitz did the observing at the 42-inch telescope at Anderson Mesa. A
summary has been posted on the front page of the NASA NEO Web site:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news185.html
...which includes a short animation generated from our first (least good)
series of images, when the asteroid was rather low in the sky and only 20
degrees from the almost-Full Moon.
The asteroid was about mag 14.5 at the time and moving at nearly 9 degrees per
day.
Our main result is that the rotation period is only 15.8 seconds (wow!),
the most-rapid known so far, and remarkable for a rock that's the size of a
school bus.
\Brian
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