THE UPDATED PATH
This updated path lies around 1.0" to the north of that given by Goffin and around 2 minutes earlier. The path crosses the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia in the area of Derby around 12:08:30 UT. Running east, the path passes to the north of Mount Isa to emerge from the north Queesland coastline between Townsville and Ingham around 12:10:40 UT.
Calculation Source
This prediction update has been computed by Steve Preston, Medina (Seattle), Washington, USA based on astrometry from Ron Stone of the US Naval Observatory - Flagstaff Station, Raoul Behrend of the Geneva Observatory and Stepano Sposetti supplemented with data from the AstDys database. The UCAC position of the target star has been used combined with Tycho 2 proper motion data.
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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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