Showing posts with label 2011 SM173. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011 SM173. Show all posts

27 September 2011

ALERT Updated 27SEP2011 --NEOs Close Approach Prompts Green Meteor Alert

UPDATED! NEOs Close Approach Prompts Green Meteor Alert
- originally posted 21SEP2011
An increase of meteors and fireballs is forecasted for just prior to and just after 22SEP2011
and 29SEP2011.  Material debris traveling with (2007 TD)(2011 SO5) and yet undetetected astroidal debris will produce some nice fireballs within the next nine days.  Get the word out and have your cameras ready.  Thank you. LunarMeteorite*Hunter - Tokyo


Updated 25SEP2011!!!
Another NEO, 2011 SE58, has just been discovered.  It will pass the Earth on 27SEP2011.  I expect related meteor activity accompanying prior to or just after the 27th.
Get the word out by posting links to this website on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and your favorite forums; thank you!
READY?  SKYWATCHERS!


Latest Update!!!! Cameras Ready? Watchers Ready? Tonight!
Today 27SEP2011  asteroid 2011 SE68 will make a close approach to Earth. Although smaller (7.9-18m dia,), 2011 SE58 has a Lunar Distance (LD) of 0.6  which is even less than asteroid 2005 YU55 with an LD of 0.8 (close approach on Nov. 8, 2011). 

(2011 SE58) 2011-Sep-270.00160.67.9 m - 18 m27.615.85

YET another NEO has just been discovered! Asteroid 2011 SC108 with an LD of 1.2 (7.1-16m dia.) will also pass on 27SEP2011!
(2011 SC108) 2011-Sep-270.00321.27.1 m - 16 m27.920.67
 and still another!

(2011 SM173) 2011-Sep-300.00190.87.4 m - 17 m27.812.71



UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH
AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers
Object
Name
Close
Approach
Date
Miss
Distance
(AU)
Miss
Distance
(LD)
Estimated
Diameter*
H
(mag)
Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2009 UR5) 2011-Sep-200.084232.819 m - 43 m25.79.42
(2007 TD) 2011-Sep-220.01606.236 m - 79 m24.412.11
(2011 SR5) 2011-Sep-250.059123.0220 m - 490 m20.425.40
(2000 SP43) 2011-Sep-260.139254.2560 m - 1.2 km18.410.67
(2009 SH2) 2011-Sep-280.077030.028 m - 62 m24.95.79
(2011 SQ5) 2011-Sep-290.037714.713 m - 30 m26.56.26
(2011 SO5) 2011-Sep-290.01435.622 m - 48 m25.512.08
For the most up-to-date NEOs information
Source of Data NASA/JPL
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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2011 The Year of Meteors!