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Asteroid 324 Bamberga, erdmanpe

Asteroid 324 Bamberga

Asteroid 324 Bamberga, erdmanpe

Asteroid 324 Bamberga

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This is an interesting main-belt asteroid.  In the top two dozen largest (~250km diameter), and discovered rather late, in 1892 (hence MP324), that has a high orbit eccentricity (~0.34), and comes within ~0.8AU of Earth every 22 years.  Sept 13, 2013 or so was the most recent closest approach and it reached about mag 8.   A series of 5 sec exposures to avoid saturation and follow the asteroid's motion over 4 hours total.

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Asteroid 324 Bamberga, erdmanpe