Asteroid (15) Eunomia, at magnitude 9.5, will pass close to the magnitude 7.8 star HD 89734 in the constellation Sextans, at ~23:40 UT, 26th January 2017.
Asteroid (15) Eunomia was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on July 29, 1851 and named after Eunomia, one of the Horae (Hours), a personification of order and law in Greek mythology. Read more