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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3041      2014 Nov 29 16.15UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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2014 WC201: CLOSE APPROACH
E. J. Christensen, et. al., Mt. Lemmon Survey (station G96) reports
discovery of 2014 WC201 which will make a close approach to Earth on
2014 December 1 according to MPEC 2014 W90.
Peter Birtwhistle, Great Shefford (J95) also contributed confirmatory
images and measures.

Observations:
2014 11 22.34274 04 31 31.00 +29 05 57.5    20.6 G96
2014 11 22.40833 04 31 31.82 +29 06 54.4    21.5 G96
2014 11 23.37280 04 32 42.77 +29 24 11.2    20.4 G96
2014 11 24.09164 04 33 43.94 +29 38 27.4         J95
2014 11 24.11169 04 33 44.94 +29 38 51.8    20.4 J95

Orbital elements:
2014 WC201                                   Earth MOID = 0.0023 AU

M 322.06233              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.75126863     Peri.  261.58374     -0.90784402     -0.41793329
a   1.1984113      Node   253.70655     +0.39727609     -0.83144065
e   0.3895079      Incl.    2.02559     +0.13413028     -0.36611229
P   1.31           H   25.8           G   0.15           U   8

Ephemeris:
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.    V
2014 11 17    04 27 23.3 +28 06 08   0.1018  1.0869   163.5    21.9
2014 11 23    04 32 17.2 +29 17 19   0.06094 1.0472   167.3    20.5
2014 11 24    04 33 38.8 +29 37 28   0.05426 1.0405   167.7    20.3
2014 11 25    04 35 22.1 +30 02 39   0.04763 1.0339   167.9    20.0
2014 12 01    05 51 34.3 +43 51 24   0.00879 0.9939   151.8    16.7
2014 12 09    16 10 21.3 -23 37 16   0.04479 0.9412    11.9    33.7
2014 12 24    16 24 42.2 -26 00 28   0.1498  0.8485    23.6    30.2

Guy M Hurst