31 Jul
2010
31 Jul
'10
9:34 p.m.
Patrick wrote:
JPL shows that on 26 August it will be 0.378 AU from Earth.
That is similar to the distance of Mars at its closest August 2003 opposition - 55,758,006 km (0.372719 AU) - when Pete Lawrence and others were trying their diurnal parallax measurements. Looks like 3833 will be close enough to Earth to try a diurnal parallax measurement with an expected result around 7-8 arcsecs. What are you showing for its topocentric sidereal coords and SLC local horizon coords at transit on the morning of August 26? Thanks. - Clear Skies - Kurt