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Showing posts with label rediscovers an asteroid lost. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

An amateur astronomer rediscovers an asteroid 'lost'


Between September and October 2008 was observed 2008SE85 potentially hazardous asteroid, but has since lost his track. Until now, when a German amateur observer has re-locate it from an ESA station.

2008SE85 asteroid's orbit. Credit: ESA / E. Schwab.
Although not a threat to Earth in the short term, the German amateur astronomer Erwin Schwab has ever seen an asteroid labeled 'potentially dangerous'.