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Subject NASA WARNING! Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Pass Near Earth in November 8!

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Should be an easy capture for the GLP telescope as well as my own, but at magnitude 11 at the closest point of the approach it'll still be far too dim to see by eye (and probably by binoculars as well) unfortunately.
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so, in the whole world of astronomy no one have a eyes on this event? smell bs desinfo
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Serious amateur astronomers will no doubt observe it, but it's not something your casual backyard sky gazer is going to be able to see.  That's pretty much the norm for a NEO flyby.  This object is certainly larger than most NEOs, and magnitude 11 is brighter than a normal NEO flyby, but it's still beyond the reach of casual star gazers.
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sky gazer add 'normaly" what kind of telescope? no device lesser then 5000 $ can catch this?
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Well when I say sky gazer I just mean someone either without a telescope or with a cheap store bought telescope.  The scope needed to see this need not be expensive, but it needs to be a quality telescope with modest aperture.  It would be easiest to do with an astrophotography setup capable of at least some deep space imaging.  A large dobsonian could be used to spot it by eye as well, but you'd have to know exactly where to find it (one of the dob push-to or goto scopes Orion sells would work best).
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Would one of those 5 or 6" Celestrons you recommended to me a week ago be sufficient?
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Original Message Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that’s one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens – in terms of smacking the Earth in the future.

It’s the case of asteroid 2005 YU55, a round mini-world that is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in diameter. In early November, this asteroid will approach Earth within a scant 0.85 lunar distances.

Due the object’s size and whisking by so close to Earth, an extensive campaign of radar, visual and infrared observations are being planned.

Asteroid 2005 YU55 was discovered by Spacewatch at the University of Arizona, Tucson’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory on Dec. 28, 2005. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]

En route and headed our way, the cosmic wanderer is another reminder about life here on our sitting duck of a planet.

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“The close Earth approach of 2005 YU55 on Nov. 8, is unusual since it is close and big. On average, one wouldn’t expect an object this big to pass this close but every 30 years,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Yeomans said that with new radar capabilities at Goldstone in California — part of NASA’s Deep Space Network — there is a good chance of obtaining radar imaging of 2005 YU55 down to the 5-meter resolution level. Doing so, he said, would mean obtaining higher spatial resolution of the object than that attained by recent spacecraft flyby missions.

“So we like to think of this opportunity as a close flyby mission with Earth as the spacecraft,” Yeomans told SPACE.com. “When combined with ground-based optical and near-infrared observations, the radar data should provide a fairly complete picture of one of the larger potentially hazardous asteroids,” he said. [5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids]

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is a slow rotator. Because of its size and proximity to Earth, the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., has designated the space rock as a “potentially hazardous asteroid.”

[link to www.space.com]

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