First two new NEOs observed from McDonald The recently installed 1-meter telescope at McDonald Observatory has helped confirm its first two new Near Earth Objects (NEOs). Both were candidates from PanSTARRS, and were followed up by a number of observatories including LCOGT. The first object, initially called P103Jah was detected by PanSTARRS on June 10th and followed-up by Tim Lister on June 12. The object was officially designated as 2012 LK2 the next day.
Animated Asteroids from FTN On Thursday, January 26 2012 a group of Faulkes Telescope Project users combined forces to observe an asteroid.
Following near-by asteroid's journey Observing with BOS one of our astronomy team, BJ Fulton, has compiled a video of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as when it was recently near the Earth on its travel around the Solar System. The video is not in real time and represents many hours of observations, compiled into less than 30 seconds.
