Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Getting Close, page 1
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Topic started on 12-6-2004 @ 12:06 PM by Thatoneguy
I was looking for scheduled meteor showers for June and I came across an orbit diagram from NASA can be found here

neo.jpl.nasa.gov...

Around the end of June is when it comes the closest June 29 it is 0.015 Astronomical Units away and if i did my math correctly thats 1,394,337.1118915532 miles

Infact, according to this site,

newton.dm.unipi.it...:Itokawa;main

It will be the closest this month for atleast the next 70 years.

Maybe this is where Aussie Bloke got his idea?

And, Is that a good distance for observing with a 6" Telescope? It's diamater is only 0.36 KM....


reply posted on 12-6-2004 @ 03:36 PM by lostinspace
newton.dm.unipi.it...:Itokawa;main


Asteroid 25143 Itokawa(1998 SF36) is 0.36km(0.224miles) in diameter. It will be closest to earth June 26/27 2004. The distance to Earth at this date will be 0.0129AU; that is 1,929,812km(1,198,640miles) to Earth.

[edit on 12-6-2004 by lostinspace]

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