Asteroid DX110

[ZEbbEDY]

Asteroid 2014 DX110 is set to fly between the Earth and the moon on Wednesday. Slooh Space Camera will broadcast the flyby live starting at 9 p.m. GMT on March 5.

 

we likely to see this from here? 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2AbPcaU73o

[Matt Scunthorpe]

I just read that it should be visible with an 'amateur telescope'. I would love to see what it looks like (if its not cloudy, which it probably will be).

Anyone else know anything about this? I dont even know what direction it would come from.

Matt.

[Ptarmigan]

universetoday.com are reporting mag15 , a bit outside my range !

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Visually, 2014 DX110 isn’t expected to brighten above +15^th magnitude as it glides northward through the constellation of Camelopardalis at closest approach Wednesday night.

http://www.universetoday.com/109997/watch-the-close-pass-of-neo-asteroid-2014-dx110-wednesday-night/

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[John]

I managed to see Asteroid 2012DA14 last February with my 4" refractor. That one was somewhat brighter though:

 http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/177548-asteroid-2012-da14/?hl=+asteroid%20+2012%20+da14

[Ptarmigan]

Camelopardalis ??? Huh ?

I dont know where they got that from,

unless I am doing something very silly the ephemeris at the MPC puts it in Ophiuchus > Serpens around midnight ?

http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K14/K14E22.html

PS. Nice one John, , ,

time to get the big dob ready for tonight

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Maybe i shall stick to the internet link then

Matt.

[Ptarmigan]

Maybe i shall stick to the internet link then

Sounds good to me,

I'll get the beer, you get the pizza, and John can bring the sofa 

Meanwhile, I updated my Stellarium and that puts it in Ophichus as well.

[Ptarmigan]

Excuse me a mo. while I talk to myself :)

Is the Cam / Oph thing a parallax problem I wonder ?

[Pint Of Stellar]

Is Bruce Willis on stand-by? 

Clouds forecast here tonight so might have to resort to the live feed too.

[ZEbbEDY]

cloudy to the max here

ah well stream finished,. didnt get to see much

[jonathan]

It was very cloudy here last night, saw the web broadcast where they had a computerised telescope set up in Italy, the best they could manage was a tiny white dot on a fuzzy screen of star trails, I wouldn't hold out much hope to see it (let alone find it) in anything I could have at my disposal.  Tracking it would be near impossible (for me).

What got me about this one was that the first I knew about it was about an hour before it was due to pass, it was 30m which apparently would create a crater 600m wide if it impacted us.  It was apparently spotted only a couple of weeks previously.  If one came along that was definitely going to hit us of this size, how much warning would they actually give the general public?  I think we'd be in some pretty deep do do.