(meteorobs) neo fly by

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue Nov 1 20:14:49 EDT 2011


Binoculars probably, maybe even the naked eye. I'm sure it's trivially 
imaged right now with even a tiny telescope (assuming it's a nighttime 
object, of course... I didn't look at the elements).

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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On 11/1/2011 6:04 PM, Mike Hankey wrote:
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=asteroid-plans-close-earth-flyby-11-11-01
>
> how big of a telescope do you think you need to have to see this when
> it is at its closest? 14? 20? bigger?



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