Close Approach of Asteroid 2006 DP14
Taken by Ernesto Guido, Martino Nicolini & Nick Howes on February 11, 2014 @
remotely from Siding Spring
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Details:
2006 DP14 has an estimated size of 460 m - 1.0 km (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=18.8) and it had a close approach with Earth at about 6.2 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0160 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 1905 UT on 2014, February 10. This asteroid reached the peak magnitude ~12.8 on February 11, 2014.
Photographer's website:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2014/02/close-approach-of-asteroid-2006-dp14.html
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