Asteroid 2014 RC
Taken by Ernesto Guido, Martino Nicolini & Nick Howes on September 5, 2014 @
remotely from Auberry California, USA.
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Details:
Asteroid 2014 RC has an estimated size of 12 m - 26 m (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=26.8) and it will have a close approach with Earth at about 0.1 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0003 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 1801 UT on 2014, September 07. This asteroid will reach the peak magnitude ~11.5 on Sep 7 between 17UT and 18UT.
Photographer's website:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2014/09/close-approach-of-asteroid-2014-rc.html
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