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On March 31, 2007 at about 05h UTC (=07h MESZ), the Asteroid named 2006 VV2 is passing the earth at a close distance of 3.40 million kilometers. This distance is equivalent to 0.023 astronomical units (AU). Thus the Asteroid flies by quite far from the Earth-Moon system and there is no danger for our planet in this flyby during the year 2007.
This object with a diameter of 2 kilometers was discovered some months ago on November 11, 2006 by the automatic search system Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). Until the year 2036, no other known object of the same size or larger will pass Earth more closely as Asteroid 2006 VV2 does in the year 2007. However, every day it is possible that a new object is being discovered that would pass the Earth at a closer distance or even could hit our planet.
The moon which is apparently crossing the Asteroid path on the sky could disturb observation or imaging. Full moon is on April 02 2007 at 17:15 UTC.
The Ephemerides table was calculated with Minor Planet Ephemeris Service exactly for the position: 15.2360° East, 48.7871° North and 550m MSL. But the parallax error within a radius of 1000 kilometers to this position is still under the 1 sigma range of table values. The path shift error is in the range of only some arc seconds. So this table and star map can be used in all of Central Europe to locate Asteroid 2006 VV2 on the sky.
Ephemerides- and visibility table 2006 VV2
The path of Asteroid 2006 VV2 in pieces of the five nights from March 28 to April 03 2007,
March 27 - April 05 2007
a Click on date shows the path for the choosen night in detail
Starmaps created with Guide 8 from Bill J Gray.
My images and videos of Asteroid 2006 VV2
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