damienpaul
06-January-2004, 12:01 AM
i have just read that the asteroid Toutatis will be visible with bino's on the 29th September this year...from Scientific American
zephyr46
16-January-2004, 04:34 AM
Radar Detection (http://reason.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/4179_Toutatis/toutatis.html)
Orbit Simulation (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?sstr=Toutatis)
:D
Josh
16-January-2004, 04:48 AM
Doesn't that make it either REALLY big or REALLY close?
damienpaul
17-January-2004, 03:20 PM
Using the orbital simulation link graciously supplied by zephyr, It appears Toutatis, a reasonably large asteroid will be around 0.01 AU of Earth:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/images/test2254.gif
Pretty close!