Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Aug 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jbaa..120..198m&link_type=abstract
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.120, no.4, p.198-199
Mathematics
Probability
Scientific paper
Last October, the ARPS initiated a new observing project to make photometric observations of asteroids which reach a phase angle of 0.2° or less at opposition. The stimulus for this followed the naming last year of asteroid (7102) in honour of Neil Bone, our former Meteor Section Director, who sadly died last year. It turned out that (7102) would reach opposition on January 18 this year at an unusually low phase angle - just 0.03°. This is so small an angle that if you were standing on the asteroid on this date, you would be able to see the Earth transiting across the face of the Sun! The probability that (7102) would attain such a low phase angle is about once in several hundred years. So our project was set up with a view to observing its namesake along with a selection of thirteen other asteroids, which also happened to pass through very low phase angle at their opposition during the period 2009 October-2010 March.
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