In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in real time, sort of like watching the second hand on a clock,.. Not quite that fast, but noticeable.
Alan Harris
Because of the nature of the orbit, we cannot predict thousands of years into the future for this object, but in anyone's lifetime now, there is no chance
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Create more difficulty than solving the problem.
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I think my mom used to wonder, 'What are you saying when you're saying that?'
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Yesterday, we had a great rain storm for about 15 to 30 minutes, which helped matters a lot. However, today the rain is drying up and there is no more expected any time soon.
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However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.
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Whether you could see it from the center of London is another matter.
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That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occur or not.
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We really would need a transponder to improve tracking enough to firmly establish that an impact would occur.
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