2021-10-05, 05:20 PM
I missed a really fast one - 2021 TX that hit 61"/sec motion ~midnight on Oct 2 in Spain!! Minimum Re was 57.96k km. It reached 15.9 mag, too. I've never found one moving this fast. I only noticed it because I misread 2021 TK as 2021 TX in the results of today's MP DBPS. It passed so fast that the searches for Sep 29, & Oct 1&3 didn't find it. It may have been discovered after close approach. According to the entry in the JPL Small Body Database, the first data used was from Oct 2 so it had already passed us.
Win some, lose some.
Phil S.
Win some, lose some.
Phil S.

