Occultation by (136199) Eris

Jose L. Ortiz, N. Morales, R. Duffard, A. Thirouin, P. Santos- Sanz, and I. de la Cueva, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Granada, Spain, report that the occultation of a star of magnitude V about 17 by the dwarf planet (136199) Eris has been successfully recorded from their remotely-operated 0.4-m ASH2 telescope at S. Pedro de Atacama Celestial Explorations Observatory in Chile, with the event starting on Nov. 6d02h18m39s +/- 7 seconds and lasting for 67 +/- 15 seconds. These observations confirm that the shadow path of the event drifted southward of most of the latest predictions, which were compiled by B. Sicardy at website URL http://tinyurl.com/2fsotul, and also by S. Preston at website URL http://tinyurl.com/2dqqol5.