When it finally cleared my horizon 2012KT42 was moving quickly and accelerating fast. Add to that the predicted positions being off a bit and 2012KT42.JPG was not an easy target. So no results nice enough that I want to keep them but here are a couple I'll leave up for a while before deciding what to do with them. First is a 2 panel mosaic with shots taken 10 minutes apart. Both are 1 second exposures. Note how quickly it was fading and how much faster it was traveling in the second picture. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2012KT42.JPG Earlier on as it was still brightening I happened to catch it "intercepting" another passerby. The three 15 second exposures in this animated GIF were taken 10 minutes before the ones above when 2012KT42 was moving slower and it was much brighter. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2012%20KT42_1.GIF patrick On 28 May 2012, at 21:23, Jay Eads wrote:
JPL at this link:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012%20KT42;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#ca...
reports that 2012 KT42, about the size of a mini-van or small bus will pass by planet Earth on May 29th at 07:00 UTC (03:00 Eastern US time). It will pass at around 14500 kilometers or 8900 miles, just slightly larger than the diameter of the Earth. This Italian Blog has an animation of the objects and some good info on it:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2012/05/2012-kt42-close-approach.html
-- Jay Eads