Video of Asteroid 2010 TD54 Flying Close to Earth

Amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins from Utah (and fellow Solar System Ambassador) was able to capture images of the newly found asteroid 2010 TD54 that whizzed by Earth ? harmlessly ? coming within about 46,000 km (less than 30,000 miles) of our planet.


For this set of images, Patrick set the mount set to nearly follow the target. The animation includes 23 five- second exposures shot between 09:01:27 and 09:04:39 UTC.

Patrick uses a Paramount ME, Celestron C-14 operating at f/5.5, S [...]

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