(meteorobs) The newly discovered asteroid 2008 CM and Venus
Roberto G.
md6648 at mclink.it
Sun Feb 3 10:05:31 EST 2008
2008 CM it's a asteroid discovered the February 2, 2008
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08C12.html
it's orbit it's unique: its period it's 0.37 year, its a it's 0.51.
its perielium (q) it's at 0.15 A.U.
If you go at
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008+CM&orb=1
and you see the position of 2008 CM for July 18, 2008
you shall see a very near passage of this asteroid toward
Venus, probably this asteroid do a meteor shower on Venus,
there are professional Astronomers here that can verify this
possibility? The probe Venus Express can to see meteor
entering on venusian atmosphere? Its Vera esperiment can
see meteors?
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli
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