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it'll simply be a point of light moving

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against the star background it's going

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to be tenth magnitude which is about 50

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times fainter than you can see with the

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naked eye but if amateur astronomers

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have a smallish telescope three inches

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in aperture or larger they can observe

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it if they have clear skies there have

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been some notices on the internet that

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have been very incorrect and very

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misleading we've pointed out time and

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time again that this object is not a

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threat it cannot approach the earth in a

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threatening manner it's simply a

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magnificent scientific opportunity to

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observe an asteroid this size this close

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NASA's doing their part by running for

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full time Observatory campaigns to

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detect discover and track these objects

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so it's one of the few natural potential

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natural disasters that we could do

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something about amateur astronomers and

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professional astronomers should take

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advantage of our website and EO JPL nasa

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gov and they can generate tables of

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positions they can see the illustrations

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that we've made of the object passing by