--------------------------------------------------------------------- MPC Ephemerides for Objects Passing Within Ten Lunar Distances ---------------------------------------------------------------------
These close-passers are not under active observation but may be achievable targets (some may have been observed more recently than reported here):
Distance - distance from Earth in lunar distances (LD) at 0000 and 2400 today Visibility today - if available, JPL geocentric apparent magnitude and solar elongation - shows min-max, not trend (note that JPL Horizons provides nil V magnitude for elongation < 60°) Earth closest - Earth passage distance at best date-time calculation UTC Moon closest - lunar passage, calculated only if Earth passage is under 2.2 LD *MPC MPES data for 0600 UTC tomorrow, March 12th. Other numbers are for 0000-2400 today UTC, processed by A/CC from JPL SSD Horizons data. Options: Start date for ephemerides: Number of dates to output Ephemeris interval: Ephemeris units: days hours minutes seconds For daily ephemerides, enter desired offset from 0h UT: hours Observatory code: Display positions in: truncated sexagesimal or full sexagesimal or decimal units Total motion & direction Separate R.A. & Decl. sky motions Separate R.A. & Decl. coordinate motions Display motions as: "/sec "/min "/hr °/day Suppress output if sun above local horizon if object below local horizon Generate perturbed ephemerides for unperturbed orbits Also display elements for epoch Format for elements output: none MPC 1-line MPC 8-line SkyMap (SkyMap Software) Guide (Project Pluto) MegaStar V4.x (E.L.B. Software) TheSky (Software Bisque) If you select 8-line MPC format, you may display the residual block for the objects selected: Show residuals blocks.Show only residual lines containing observations from code . If you select 8-line MPC format the elements will be displayed with the ephemerides. If you select any format other than 8-line MPC format, only the elements are returned. In such cases your browser should download the elements file and save it to your local disk.