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My American friends - Get ready for the best and brightest asteroid occultation ever predicted for North America. Late on the night of March 19–20, the faint asteroid 163 Erigone (eh-RIG-uh-nee) will briefly eclipse the bright naked-eye star Regulus for more than 20 million people in the New York metropolitan area and parts of Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, upstate New York, and Ontario. The star will wink out of sight for up to 14 seconds around 2:06 a.m. EDT on the morning of the 20th for New Yorkers, and a minute or two later farther north. skyandtelescope/observing/highlights/Bright-Star-to-be-Blacked-Out-by-Faint-Asteroid-249327421.html
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 05:06:47 +0000

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