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(SNES) 2001 YB5 Makes a Very Up Close and Personal Appearance Tonight



Hi Folks

Newly discovered near earth orbit asteroid 2001 YB5 is hurtling past the Earth as I write this note. Only about a hundred meters long on its major axis, it will probably be between the 12th and 13th magnitude tonight. It started on the Hydra side of Beta Cancri yesterday and will
be well on its way towards Gemini tonight. Here are the orbital elements
for those of you who have suitable software.

semimajor axis		2.370829	
eccentricity 0.863279 inclination 5.4366
arg perihelion		114.0451	
long. asc. node		109.4551	
mean anomaly		327.1064	
epoch 2001/10/18 20.4 0.15

Les Coleman	
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