[meteorite-list] Vesta NOW visible in Aquarius

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 2 12:52:16 2004
Message-ID: <2A739209.33F320F6.0BFED528_at_aol.com>

Hola List,

Just a reminder that as soon as you get some clear skies,
it's Vesta hunting season. Vesta, on one of its infrequent
closest approaches just broke the barrier to be "naked-eye"
visible and over the next ten days will get slightly
brighter, to around magnitude 6.08. Piece of cake with
binoculars. More info and nice finder charts on the Vesta
link at:
http://www.diogenite.com
Don't miss you chance to see an in-situ,
270,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilogram virtually pure achondrite
(In the US, that's over a quarter of a sextillion kilos)
(In the UK, that's over a quarter of a trilliard of kilos)
HEDX. It's basically the only chance we get, and it is free
for the taking ... but shipping will cost you:)
Saludos, Doug
(Preparing for the DAWN probe celebrations to Vesta & Ceres)
Received on Thu 02 Sep 2004 12:52:03 PM PDT