[meteorite-list] 2002NY40 Flyby

From: Bernd Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:18 2004
Message-ID: <3D5FB682.FA5E5F58_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Dave and Sarah wrote:

> we just came in from observing asteroid
> 2002NY40 hum past Earth!

Congratulations!

> Conditions: ... a little high, thin cloud
> that gave the stars a hint of fuzzy halo.

>From my observing site, the sky was hazy and awash with stray moonlight
+ a lot of party lights because a neigbor was having a summer party. A
lot of light pollution, a scope that was not properly aligned and thus
no 2002 NY40 :-(

But: I happened to see a very swift fireball whizz past coming from the
constellation of Andromeda, and minutes later an orange-colored meteor
heading toward Sagitta :-)

I also visited the Hercules globular cluster, the Dumbbell Nebula and
Albireo, then had a look up and down the Moon's terminator where the
200+ km crater Clavius and its chain of craterlets and the impressive
terraced Copernicus competed against each other.

Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Sun 18 Aug 2002 11:00:18 AM PDT