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Re: (meteorobs) 1988 eg. looking for asteroid.



Hi Nico:
Two asteroids will be making a near Earth flyby on Saturday Feb 28th, 1998
- [1988 EG and 1998 CS1] both at about .03 AU's.  1998 BY7 came even closer
on Feb 21st,1998 (.028 AU).

Steven Ostro, I hear,  will be taking this opportunity to use the new
Upgraded Arecibo Telescope to study these flyby's.

1998 CS1 MPEC is on http://cfa-www.harvarddot edu/mpec/J98/J98C27.html

Arecibo announcement by Steve Ostro is on
http://echo.jpl.nasadot gov/arecibo_ops.html

Victor 
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> From: Nico Lonetti <orbiter@tindot it>
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> Subject: (meteorobs) 1988 eg. looking for asteroid.
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 3:44 AM
> 
> Dear astrofriends,
> I'm planning to watch the 1988 eg asteroid.
> But I have no ephemerides, and no magnitude datas.
> Where to find it ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> thanks in advance
> Nico Lonetti  - Italy
> p.s.
> The Earth-crossing asteroid 1988EG
> (which has just been numbered 6037 but is not yet named)
> was discovered in 1988 at Palomar by JPL's International
> Near-Earth Asteroid Survey team.
> The close approach to within about 12 lunar
> distances from Earth in late February 1998 offers an
> excellent opportunity to learn about this object.
> There is no 1988EG radar opportunity at least this good until
> 2023.
> 
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