26th/27th – Near Earth Object asteroid, best seen around midnight onwards in larger scopes, On the 27th morning it passes up across Constellation of Cancer and will be right next to M44 beehive cluster around 5-6am (great astrophoto opportunity). A near-Earth object (NEO) is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. All NEOs have a closest approach to the Sun of less than 1.3 AU. They include more than ten thousand near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to be tracked in space. Red line is its apparent path, Happy hunting :)
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:36:32 +0000