ASTRONOMICAL ALERTS Last updated: 12 January 2010

Subject:	Asteroid 2010 AL30 closing in
Sent:	Monday, January 11, 2010 16:17:24
From:	P. Clay Sherrod (drclay@tcworks.net)
NEO 2010 AL30
Here is an exciting project for your telescopes during the next two
nights; this object is moving rapidly in a directly line toward earth,
but at this time does not appear to pose direct danger.  It will reach
14th magnitude or greater by midnight tomorrow night (Jan. 12-13 UT) and
is high overhead in evening skies after dark.  It will essentially be
gone by Thursday and not visible.

The near miss distance from earth puts it at about 1/3 the lunar
distance, but the orbital parameters are very scant at this time.

The first announcement on the object is at:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K10/K10A59.html

And continued and improved orbital updates for your telescope's
operating system (i.e., Autostar or any PC program) are available at:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html

This is a very exciting object and by Tueday evening, it will be moving
so rapidly that you will be able to watch its motion visually and
certainly be able to track it via CCD with sub-second exposures.

Dr. Clay
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Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/

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