[SMCARA] ASTEROID FLYBY

[JD Delancy]

Space Weather News for Jan. 28, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

ASTEROID FLYBY:  Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past Earth this week at a 
distance of only 334,000 miles (1.4 lunar distances).  NASA radars 
tracking the asteroid confirm that there is no danger of a collision, 
but it will be close enough for amateur astronomers to photograph 
through mid-sized backyard telescopes. At closest approach on Jan. 29th, 
the asteroid will glide through the constellations Andromeda and 
Cassiopeia glowing like a 10th magnitude star.  Visit 
http://spaceweather.com for celestial coordinates and a low-resolution 
radar image of the approaching rock.

HALO BONUS:  A photographer in Finland has captured the long-sought 
"Kern arc", a rare sun halo created by triangular ice crystals.   
Experts are calling it the "halo photo of the decade" and it is featured 
on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com.