Close Approach of Asteroid 2016 RB1
Taken by Ernesto Guido on September 7, 2016 @
remotely from Australia, Siding Spring
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Details:
Asteroid 2016 RB1 has an estimated size of 7.3 m - 16 m (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=27.8) 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) on 2016, September 7 at 17:20UT and it will reach a peak magnitude of about +12.3.
Photographer's website:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2016/09/close-approach-of-asteroid-2016-rb1.html
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