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THE UPDATED PATH
This updated path lies around one path width to the south of that given by Occult and around 30 seconds earlier. The new path crosses the far northern coast of New South Wales around Grafton (13:08:30 UT) running southwest across Armidale and Gilgandra (13:09 UT). The path runs just north of Mildura before covering the country between Adelaide and Gawler in South Australia (13:10:30 UT) and the tip of the York Peninsula.
The error margins on this calculation will certainly include all of metropolitan Adelaide and perhaps the Gold Coast in Queensland. The southern outskirts of Brisbane should be considered.
Calculation Source
This prediction update has been computed by Steve Preston of Medina, Washington (state) in the United States based on astrometry from Ron Stone of the US Naval Observatory - Flagstaff Station and Raoul Behrend of the Observatoire de Geneve supplemented with data from the AstDys database. The UCAC position of the target star has been used.
Additional details of this and other events are available at Steve Preston's website at http://www.oz.net/~stevepr/Asteroids/asteroid.htmEVENT DETAILS SUMMARY:
IMPORTANT NOTE!
Astrometric updates such as these should not be taken as definitive, but rather only as an indication of where the true track may lie relative to the original predicted track. Observers must bear in mind that later astrometry, in which the target star is measured in the same field as the asteroid, may still reveal substantial changes to the predicted track and time of the event. For this reason it is most important that observers far from the predicted track still monitor the event.
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[Planetary Occultations]
[Using the Predictions]
[Observing Details]
[Timing Details]
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[Asteroid Occultation Results]
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