* Astronomy

The 50 meter-wide asteroid 2007 GU1 is to flyby the Earth on April 16th. At closest approach the
space rock will be 500,000 miles away, about 2.1 lunar distances.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2007 04 10    13 35.87   +10 06.1    0.0601   1.059   161.3    17.7    19.6
2007 04 11    13 39.82   +09 46.7    0.0499   1.049   161.2    17.9    19.2
2007 04 12    13 45.74   +09 16.1    0.0397   1.040   161.2    18.1    18.7
2007 04 13    13 55.65   +08 22.7    0.0296   1.031   161.1    18.4    18.1
2007 04 14    14 15.51   +06 30.8    0.0197   1.021   160.3    19.4    17.2
2007 04 15    15 13.08   +00 46.9    0.0102   1.012   152.6    27.2    16.0
2007 04 16    20 06.49   -21 05.8    0.00542  1.003    86.2    93.4    16.7
2007 04 17    23 41.20   -18 25.0    0.0128   0.994    40.7   138.8    21.9
2007 04 18    00 24.70   -15 47.3    0.0225   0.985    32.6   146.7    24.3
2007 04 19    00 41.43   -14 35.9    0.0325   0.976    30.1   148.9    25.4
2007 04 20    00 50.21   -13 55.6    0.0426   0.968    29.2   149.6    26.1
2007 04 21    00 52 02   -13 47.2   n.a. 
2007 04 22    00 56 15   -13 26.1   n.a. 
2007 04 23    00 59 17   -13 09.8   n.a. 

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2007 GU1 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 11 April 2007