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The 14 - 31 metre wide asteroid 2008 AF3 will make a close pass (35.6 lunar distances, 0.0915 AU), travelling at 6.01 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th December, 2011 @ 05:21 UT ±00:18.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).



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You will need a 12" diameter telescope to spot the magnitude 14 asteroid as it passes through Ursa Major this evening.

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On Jan. 13, 2008, a 27 metre-wide asteroid, 2008 AF3, will make a close flyby (1.3 lunar distances) of the Earth. The asteroid will appear as a magnitude 14 star in the northern sky

 Date__(UT)__HR:MN     R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC  APmag  	
 2008-Jan-12 00:00     05 44 02.50 +27 52 38.5  14.96 
 2008-Jan-13 00:00     07 49 07.80 +48 44 45.6  14.29 
 2008-Jan-14 00:00     12 29 08.89 +50 04 06.1  15.42 
 2008-Jan-15 00:00     14 25 55.87 +33 31 02.4  17.03


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