Well, we saw it – or rather we saw it, then it winked out, and then it was there again. Magnitude 10.5 TYCO 0528-00946-1 star in Aquarius winked out for about 2 seconds while Gary Jacobson, Ken Cantrell, Marion Hochuli, Tom Calderwood and I watched. This was an occultation by 694 Ekard, a 12.6 Mag [...]

INTRODUCTION The scientific interest in asteroids is due largely to their status as the remnant debris from the inner solar system formation process. Because some of these objects can collide with the Earth, asteroids are also important for having significantly modified the Earth’s biosphere in the past. They will continue to do so in the [...]

Some Wikipedia info on 55636 (source link here) (55636) 2002 TX300 Discovery Discovered by NEAT Discovery date October 15, 2002 Designations MPC designation (55636) 2002 TX300 Alternate name none Minor planet category Trans-Neptunian object (TNO) cubewano Orbital characteristics Epoch December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5) Aphelion 7252.615 Gm (48.481 AU) Perihelion 5654.528 Gm (37.798 AU) Semi-major [...]