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ASTROMETRIC UPDATE:
OCCULTATION BY (23) THALIA - 2003 FEB 14

[Edwin Goffin's Prediction + Finder Charts]


UPDATE: 2003 FEB 08, 19:10 UT

THE UPDATED PATH

Thalia Update Map

On the evening of 2003 Feb 14 UT (just before dawn on the 15th), the 107 km diameter asteroid (23) Thalia will occult a 11.5 mag star in the constellation Libra for observers along a path across southern Australia.

In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star will drop by 0.7 mag to 11.3 mag (the magnitude of the asteroid) for at most 10.4 seconds.

This update is based on UNSO/Flagstaff astrometry for the asteroid kindly provided by Ron Stone, TMO astrometry for the asteroid kindly provided by Bill Owen, Observatoire de Geneve astrometry for the asteroid kindly provided by Raoul Behrend, historical astrometry from AstDys, and the following catalogs for the star position: UCAC, Tycho-2.

Additional details of this and other events are available at Steve Preston's website at http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/

EVENT DETAILS SUMMARY : The Occultation Path : Data for the target star : Data for the minor planet :

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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