* Astronomy

The small asteroid   2007 VE191 was discovered USNO Flagstaff  on  the 19th November  has made a close flyby of  Earth.
The asteroid is now  departing  the Earth moon system after coming about  5 lunar distances  at 04:03 UT 28th November, 2007

Object: 2007VE191 

     date         MJD      sigma sigimp   dist +/-   width    stretch    p_RE    exp. en.    PS  
   YYYY/MM                                (RE)       (RE)      RE/sig               MT           
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2015/11/27.115  57353.115  0.467 0.000    0.53 +/-    0.001  3.55E+03  2.17E-04  3.39E-03  -2.09
2026/11/26.733  61370.733  0.480 0.000    0.16 +/-    0.000  4.08E+06  2.07E-07  3.25E-06  -5.48


Based on   57 optical observations (of which   1 are rejected as outliers)
from 2007/11/15.267 to 2007/11/27.207.

Diameter:    ~ 60 meters (H=23.8)
Closest Earth approach:    5.00 LD.

	element value	1-sigma variation
a (AU)	1.91503	0.003822
eccentricity	0.628578	0.0008717
inclination (deg)	5.421	0.006691
Asc. node (deg)	244.971	0.0009715
Arg. perih. (deg)	253.411	0.0024
M (deg)	331.503	0.09363

Ephemeris at epoch 54433

Right Ascension (deg)	297.876
Declination (deg)	-24.8354
V Magnitude	20.28
Solar Elongation (deg)	-49.01
Phase (deg)	130.32
Galactic Latitude (deg)	-23.65
Distance from Earth (AU)	0.015
Distance from Sun (AU)	0.977

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