2023-03-23, 05:42 PM
Dennis,
I hope that you've captured this NEO, it sure won't be visible from Ohio. Here's the latest update using MPC's elements for 2023 Mar 23:
Note that there was a Copy/Paste error for CNEOS's Earth MOID value for March 21 in the earlier update. The correct value is 4.77653E-5 au. I omitted the negative sign in the exponent
. It's been corrected in the current update.
The predicted peak brightness is now 10 magnitude as the NEO's estimated diameter continues to be reduced with additional observations. It's still going to be the brightest close approach of the last few years since I've been following these events. It's the second 'Rarity'=3 event that's occurred in the past several months. We've also been hit twice & the moon was recently hit once.
Good hunting,
Phil S.
I hope that you've captured this NEO, it sure won't be visible from Ohio. Here's the latest update using MPC's elements for 2023 Mar 23:
Note that there was a Copy/Paste error for CNEOS's Earth MOID value for March 21 in the earlier update. The correct value is 4.77653E-5 au. I omitted the negative sign in the exponent
. It's been corrected in the current update.The predicted peak brightness is now 10 magnitude as the NEO's estimated diameter continues to be reduced with additional observations. It's still going to be the brightest close approach of the last few years since I've been following these events. It's the second 'Rarity'=3 event that's occurred in the past several months. We've also been hit twice & the moon was recently hit once.
Good hunting,
Phil S.
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