2023-11-19, 01:32 PM
Currently magnitude 38 due to extremely small phase angle, this little rock from space did a very close flyby on 17 Nov 03:40UT of just 24,296Km. I call these "whizzers". Unfortunately for us observers the initial reported observation by ATLAS Chile, Rio Hurtado on 2023-11-16 at mag 18, came too late.
It very quickly reach magnitude 11, very high in my sky the same day at 21:15 CST moving a degree and a half per minute!
Within the next hour, this small rock became totally unobservable as its phase angle dropped to single digits.
It takes a lot of work to get these recent discoveries into SkyTools and then get them plotted correctly. It's all about gravity.
It very quickly reach magnitude 11, very high in my sky the same day at 21:15 CST moving a degree and a half per minute!
Within the next hour, this small rock became totally unobservable as its phase angle dropped to single digits.
It takes a lot of work to get these recent discoveries into SkyTools and then get them plotted correctly. It's all about gravity.
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