Dale Hooper tracked it down for us out at the Antelope Island Star Party. We didn't get any pictures either. We watched it for several hours. The color and size looked a lot like Neptune. The motion was like a slow satellite. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 6:22 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: 2002 NY40 pictures Hi, No pictures this time. Was having too much fun just watching it and showing it to others. It really was neat to actually SEE it moving. I've never seen an asteroid move before. However, during a close pass of another asteroid last year I took bunches of images on three consecutive nights and had them spliced together into a "movie" that shows how the apparent motion increases as distance decreases. See it at the bottom of http://planet.state.ut.us/slas/patrickw/patrickw02.html . Cheers! Patrick Jim Stitley wrote:
Any pictures to post??? Jim
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