Frederick Pilcher - Coordinator
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Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA
pilcher@ic.edu



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206 River Rd.
Fairfax, VT 05454
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Dr. Alan W. Harris - Scientific Advisor
(Space Science Institute)
awharris@spacescience.org

 

Dr. Petr Pravec - Scientific Advisor
(Ondrejov Observatory)
ppravec@asu.cas.cz

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Minor Planet Alert for March 24-25, 2009:

     Roger Harvey, Concord, NC, finds that minor planet (18590) 1997 YO10,
magnitude 16.1, will make a very close approach to the 12th magnitude galaxy
NGC 5211, J2000 coordinates 13h 33.2m, -01deg 02', 2009 March 24-25 UT.  He
recommends that a movie or sequence of still pictures be made of this event,
and be made generally available.  The earlier stages will be observable from
Europe and the later stages from North America.  I invite anyone who might have
the interest and resources to monitor this event to contact Frederick Pilcher
at pilcher@ic.edu

     Below is an ephemeris of (18590) 1997 YO10:



Elements from:  (MPCORB)


          Minor Planet :    18590 1997 YO10

    DATE      ET    RA(2000)    DEC(2000)    Mv    Sun   Earth   Phase   Elon
    ----      --    --------    ---------    --    ---   -----   -----   ----
 2009-Mar-24 12.0  13h 33.53m  - 1ø  3.4'  16.1   2.177   1.213    8.9  160.1
 2009-Mar-24 16.0  13h 33.40m  - 1ø  2.7'  16.1   2.177   1.212    8.9  160.3
 2009-Mar-24 20.0  13h 33.27m  - 1ø  2.0'  16.1   2.176   1.211    8.8  160.5
 2009-Mar-25  0.0  13h 33.13m  - 1ø  1.4'  16.1   2.176   1.210    8.7  160.7
 2009-Mar-25  4.0  13h 33.00m  - 1ø  0.7'  16.1   2.176   1.209    8.6  160.9
 2009-Mar-25  8.0  13h 32.86m  - 1ø  0.0'  16.1   2.176   1.208    8.6  161.1
 2009-Mar-25 12.0  13h 32.73m  - 0ø 59.4'  16.1   2.175   1.207    8.5  161.2
 2009-Mar-25 16.0  13h 32.59m  - 0ø 58.7'  16.1   2.175   1.206    8.4  161.4


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