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Stellar Occultation by (1945) Wesselink on 2024-12-20 (18:20:19 UT)

CTU: Cross-track uncertainty (zero means: use the nominal prediction value, see event details below). Offsets and CTU all in mas.


Event Details
 Occultation UUID [and db] : c5eb5a00-ddb5-11f0-547e-b0f0f2fe79dd [observed]

 Occultation Date + Time   : 2024-12-20 at 18:20:19 UT +/- 0.0 min  [1]
 Object Designation        : (1945) Wesselink
 Star Designation          : GDR3 2605173955976066048
 Star Coordinates (ICRF)   : RA = 22 50 27.8965, DE = -10 22 10.628  [2]
 Star Magnitudes           : G = 12.79 mag, RP = 12.26 mag, BP = 13.13 mag
 Object Magnitude          : V = 17.38 mag
 Estimated Magnitude Drop  : 4.6 mag
 Estimated Max. Duration   : 0.3 sec
 Speed of the shadow       : 30.4 km/s
 Object Mean Diameter      : 9.5 km  (src: astorb) => apparent = 6 mas
 Apparent Motion           : 1.1217 arcs/min @ PA = 68 deg
 Horizontal Parallax       : 3.9260 arcs
 Dynamical Class           : MBA
 Elongation to Moon & Sun  : 175° (sunlit = 70%), Sun = 71°
 Cross-track uncertainty   : 0.3 mas = 0 km = 0.05 path-width (1-sig)
 RUWE and duplicate source : 0.95 mas, dup.src = 0  (0:false, 1:true)

 Ephemeris Reference       : JPL78
 Note                      : FP:true

 
 [1] time t0 of closest geocentric approach c/a, [2] including proper motion until t0


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