BAA electronic bulletin No. 00317 - http://www.britastro.org/
Dear Observer,
We have a good opportunity coming up by way of a near-Earth asteroid discovered on Nov 5 and due to make a close approach on the night of Sunday Nov 25/26 when it will reach magnitude 13. The object, designated 2007 VD12, is about 500 meters across and has an orbital period of 1.23 yr.
Below are ephemerides suitable for observation from the UK. Alternatively for your local ephemerides, visit the Minor Planet Center at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html
Asteroid 2007 VD12
Rotation period = 7.42 h, Amplitude = 0.6 mag
Ephemeris for J77 (50.9deg N, 2.4 deg W)
Date UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. V Sky Motion
h m "/min PA
Nov 22 2300 06 22 29 +02 09.6 0.033 1.013 139.1 39.7 14.3 19.3 030
Nov 23 0100 06 23 46 +02 43.9 0.032 1.012 139.1 39.7 14.2 20.0 029
Nov 23 0300 06 25 05 +03 19.6 0.032 1.012 139.2 39.6 14.2 20.8 029
Nov 23 0500 06 26 27 +03 56.8 0.031 1.011 139.3 39.6 14.1 21.8 029
Nov 23 2300 06 43 41 +10 57.8 0.025 1.006 138.7 40.3 13.7 33.2 030
Nov 24 0100 06 46 00 +11 56.5 0.025 1.006 138.5 40.5 13.7 34.6 030
Nov 24 0300 06 48 24 +12 57.8 0.024 1.005 138.4 40.7 13.6 36.2 030
Nov 24 0500 06 50 57 +14 01.9 0.023 1.005 138.1 41.0 13.6 38.0 030
Nov 24 2300 07 24 53 +26 12.4 0.019 1.000 133.0 46.2 13.2 59.4 034
Nov 25 0100 07 29 56 +27 53.0 0.018 1.000 132.1 47.1 13.2 61.7 034
Nov 25 0300 07 35 19 +29 36.8 0.018 0.999 131.1 48.1 13.2 63.9 035
Nov 25 0500 07 41 06 +31 23.4 0.018 0.999 130.0 49.2 13.2 66.3 035
Nov 25 2300 09 04 01 +48 28.2 0.016 0.994 115.3 63.8 13.4 84.5 049
Nov 26 0100 09 17 19 +50 15.9 0.016 0.993 113.4 65.8 13.4 84.2 051
Nov 26 0300 09 31 31 +51 57.1 0.016 0.993 111.4 67.8 13.5 83.4 054
Nov 26 0500 09 46 37 +53 30.3 0.016 0.992 109.4 69.7 13.5 82.4 057
Nov 26 2300 12 29 29 +59 31.1 0.018 0.988 92.1 86.9 14.4 66.9 092
Nov 27 0100 12 46 34 +59 23.1 0.018 0.987 90.4 88.5 14.5 63.6 095
Nov 27 0300 13 02 37 +59 08.1 0.019 0.987 88.8 90.1 14.6 60.3 099
Nov 27 0500 13 17 33 +58 46.9 0.019 0.986 87.3 91.5 14.7 57.1 102
Richard Miles
based on MPEC 2007-V74