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07 October 2008

2008 TC3 (Images and Video)


From Astronomy.com blog:
First images of asteroid 2008 TC3
Posted 10-07-2008 by Matt Quandt

This morning, the husband and wife observing team of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre forwarded to Astronomy an image and an animation of the asteroid 2008 TC3 they received from amateur astronomer friends in Italy. Imelda runs an image service company and is a contributor to Astronomy magazine.

"Here's a sequence of photos and animation of 2008 TC3 taken by our astronomer friends in Italy," Imelda writes. "They're among the first (if not the first) amateur images of the object."

Link: Video of October 6 asteroid 2008 TC3 (Astronomy.com)

Link: First images of asteroid 2008 TC3 (Astronomy.com blog)

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