[neo_followup] C0PPEV1 = near-miss

Bill Gray pluto at projectpluto.com
Thu Oct 31 12:40:20 EDT 2019


Hello all,

    A bit of a long shot here,  but... this object is about
to come _very_ close to us,  perigee at 12520 +/- 70 km
from the geocenter :

https://projectpluto.com/temp/c0pp.htm

    As I write this,  it's about to emerge from the earth's
shadow.  People in Asia and Australia might be able to get
some astrometry on it over the next hour or two.  It'll be
bright and very fast,  with just enough uncertainty that
you'd be apt to improve its orbit a lot.

    After perigee,  it goes to low elongations and becomes
extremely faint.

    DO NOT USE MPC EPHEMERIDES FOR THIS OBJECT.  Earth/moon
perturbations are not included.

-- Bill




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