(3200) Phaethon, First Successful Occultation Observations of a Small Near-Earth Object
Abstract
On 2019 July 29, a 7th-mag. star in Auriga was recorded from 52 mobile stations in a path across the s.w. USA. Six of them recorded its occultation by Phaethon, the first successful occultation with a small NEO, to help JAXA's DESTINY+ flyby in 2025.
- Publication:
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Asteroid Science in the Age of Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019LPICo2189.2062D