The sky cleared in the afternoon of the first day of January, 2011, and it remained clear all night long, with a very good transparency and seeing, below 2″.
The night between 1 and 2 of January was our most productive night since 2001, with 190 astrometric positions sent to the MPC, regarding 41 NEAs and 21 (known) MBAs detected (I know, Catalina makes 190 obs. in less than half an hour or so, but for us is a very good result!… π
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- 2014 AA has impacted Earth on Jan. 02
- Discovery of cometary nature of 2013 EW90
- Discovery of cometary nature of 2013 EV9
- Discovery of cometary nature of 2012 OP
- 2012 DA14 close approach
- Parallax experiment on (Y5705) 2006 VB14
- New comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR)
- (4179) Toutatis close approach
- The eclipse of NEO 2012 XE54
- New comet C/2012 V2 (LINEAR)