[AZ-Observing] Re: Asteroid 2014 RC update
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: AZ-Observing <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:59:32 -0700
Dodged a bullet! Were there any riflings on it? Is it true a piece of it
did fall to earth?
Jack
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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