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Asteroid 4179 Toutatis
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/4179_Toutatis/toutatis.html

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Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (formerly 1989 AC) was discovered by C. Pollas on January 4, 1989, at Caussols, France, on photographic plates taken on the 0.9-m Schmidt telescope by Alain Maury and Derral Mulholland during astrometric observations of Jupiter's faint satellites. Toutatis is the long streak in this image.

Toutatis Close Approaches (EMD = Earth-Moon distances)
Date         1992 Dec 8     1996 Nov 29     2000 Oct 31     2004 Sep 29
hh:mm             05:37           22:54           04:31           13:37

Dist AU    0.0241484197    0.0354303011    0.0738653055    0.0103592320
     km       3,612,552       5,300,298      11,050,092       1,549,719
     miles    2,244,774       3,293,452       6,866,209         962,951
     EMD            9.4            13.8            28.7             4.0

RA           13 17 41.8      13 35 28.3      14 32 12.3      14 31 33.2
Dec         -23 39 54.6     -21 43 27.8     -21 07 23.3     -59 40 29.9
Constell'n        Hydra           Virgo           Libra       Centaurus

The Sep. 29, 2004, approach is the closest in this century of any known asteroid at least as large as Toutatis (or more precisely, of any known asteroid with an absolute magnitude as small as H = 15.30).

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The eve of September 29 will be full moon and the beginning of Feast of Tabernacles.

Dianne
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