Near earth Asteroid 2012 KP24 0.1 LD!

Hey guys, on a related note, I found a NEO that has 0 as a miss distance minimum. It's 2008 CT1 which is the bus-sized asteroid that flew within 0.00089 AUs back in 2008. It has a condition code of 8 (orbit uncertainty estimate 0-9, with 0 being good, and 9 being highly uncertain) so it's not very certain it will hit.

Anyway, this 0 distance possibility could happen Feb 5th, 2069.

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

Very nice Astromut.

How do you put in the observational Monte Carlo numbers? Is this Starry Night software?

Thanks for the calculations and the vido Astro. Great Job.

Is it possible to aid in the search for NEOs? Is there an online resource set up specifically for people who wish to contribute their time and scrutiny?

We cant...it has you as an off planetoid

I think there is....Astromut probably knows right off the top off his huge noggin

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Links -

2012 KP24 JPL Data / Condition Code 8
[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

Condition Code Scale Information
[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

Space Weather
[link to www.spaceweather.com]

JPL Copyright - Courtesy NASA / JPL-Caltech
[link to www.jpl.nasa.gov]

condition code down to a 7. minimum distance updated this morning. .0003857AU or around 35,870

Thanks, the monte carlo solutions get dumped into a program called ORSA.

Well the major neo surveys all use automated search methods, but if you have the time and money, you can rent time on an online telescope from itelescope.net and hunt for them yourself. Takes a lot of time and money though. Once the 20" glp scope is online you can use that to do the search instead.

I see that the Catalina Sky Survey is hiring:

[link to www.uacareertrack.com (secure)]

Thanks for the reply.

I just saw that. Thanks for reporting. That means the measurements are a bit more accurate than yesterday.

I prefer to think in Lunar Distance so I put it into the LD converter and came up with 0.149 LD. This is about 1/7 of the distance from the Earth to the moon.

Ok guys, need HELP!

What does this break down to?

6.0E -4AU

Now showing that on the 28TH using hourly setting???

POSSIBLE IMPACT?!?

FOR MORE INFO!

Move the decimal 4 places to the left, inserting zeros.

.0006 AU

Here's the Update;

Ahh, got ya, thanks for that!

And DAMN!

TY fr the update Tbar. Noticed 2 resolve for position depending on whos data you're using. So obviously
one of them is wrong. What if they are both wrong?
And shouldn't the 2 data have slightly differnt close
approach times?

The HORIZONS data is for ONE specific date. The MPC data is for an epoch, there is a difference. That's why I went through the trouble of narrowing it down to ONE DAY. They are using the same observations.

TY, but, sorry reply over my head. I can barely figure out how to find this thread.
Checking out the F1 MC, so up early...later

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JPL has updated the condition code from a 7 to a 6 which means they are getting more observations and are able to more accurately pinpoint a trajectory.

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

The minimum distance is now 0.00038155935 AUs which translates to 0.148 Lunar Distances (LDs) which is about 1/7th of the distance from Earth to the moon. The distance in miles is 35468 which is about 400 miles closer than the estimates from yesterday.

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UPDATE! NEO 2012 KZ41(updated 28MAY2012)
Another NEO just discovered that will pass less than 10LD:

(2012 KZ41) 2012-May-31 0.0208 8.1 27 m - 61 m 24.9 12.38

[link to lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com]

This is a great site...Unclick stars and constellations then hit run for a nice view.


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Thanks for the sites.

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Astro is the man !

Actually after listening to that voice you can be my man, here step into my boudoir.

Not at 25 meters in diameter.