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Name:   laureleg - Email Member
Subject:   light in sky, could it have been?
Date:   11/9/2011 11:57:14 AM

11/8/11 -- Asteroid YU55 to be NASA Radar target -- 4 x bigger than elenin -- closest @ biggest since 1976.
"It will approach earth within 0.85 lunar distances (0.00217 AU) on
November 8, 2011, when it will be an extraordinarily strong radar target."

1. "Asteroid YU55....will approach earth within 0.85 lunar distances (0.00217 AU) on November 8, 2011, when it will be an extraordinarily strong radar target. 

2.Arecibo observations in 2010 revealed that YU55 is a rounded object about 400 meters in diameter. 

3.The 2011 approach is the closest known by an asteroid this large since 1976

4. Due to its size and proximity to earth, the Minor Planet Center has designated YU55 as a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid."

[link to echo.jpl.nasa.gov] 
Updated by NASA February 4, 2011

3 second video showing trajectory:
[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]




Name:   alabound - Email Member
Subject:   light in sky, could it have been?
Date:   11/9/2011 5:40:33 PM

I think Jupiter may be correct. same light was in the sky last night but much smaller and higher  on horizon. My  husband and I both sai we'd never seen anything like it through binoculars. Puzzled by how it got so much smaller and higher in just 2 nights, At least he doesn't think I'm crazy!



Name:   Ulysses E. McGill - Email Member
Subject:   light in sky, could it have been?
Date:   11/9/2011 8:24:36 PM

The asteroid that passed this week was too small to be seen with the naked eye.







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