2004 XP14

2004 XP14's 2006 Close Passage

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Updated: 1 Aug. 2006

Image

2004 XP14 by Robt. Hutsebaut at 0834:41 UT on 3 July 2006 using Rent-a-Scope at N.M. Skies

2004 XP14 leaving Cassiopeia
headed northeastward early on July 3rd
an image from Robert Hutsebaut,
who writes that this is a "60-sec. shot of 2004 XP14. Mid-exposure 08h34m41sec UT (July 3) with the 0.25-m astrograph at H06 (New Mexico Skies Observatory). At that moment the object was moving at a speed of 378"/min. towards 317° and was 0.0033 AU from us, a little more than one Lunar distance."

Links

(Order is newest received first)

Tweenhills Observatory (England) has two WMV animations of about 1.7Mb each spanning 2338-0041 UTC on 4-5 July here and here.
"Asteroid Flyby Caught!" (by Johnny Horne in North Carolina) July Sky & Telescope news item
Wildberg Observatory (Germany) page about 2004 XP14 Passage on July 3rd (in German)

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