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Tycho Brahe Asteroid

ZzzaxxZzzaxx Registered User new member
edited June 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
I wanted to alert you all of this and possibly get some more info about it

so far I've found that the Tycho Brahe Asteroid, named for the astronomer for which PA's Tycho is named, will be passing by earth at it's closest point at a minuscule 121,772,213 miles. I was wondering if it would be visible with a relatively inexpensive telescope.

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  • AroducAroduc regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't know, how big/bright is the fucker? 100 million miles is fucking nothing in the grand scale of astronomical thingies. We can see stars with our naked eyes that are exponentially further out than that.

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  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't know what magnitude of telescope you'd need to see it, but here's some good information about it.

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  • JaninJanin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Zzzaxx wrote: »
    I wanted to alert you all of this and possibly get some more info about it

    so far I've found that the Tycho Brahe Asteroid, named for the astronomer for which PA's Tycho is named, will be passing by earth at it's closest point at a minuscule 121,772,213 miles. I was wondering if it would be visible with a relatively inexpensive telescope.

    121 million miles is a lot when you're talking about spotting an asteroid, which are very small and dark. I can't find any information about exactly how big it is, but considering that its orbit is well outside that of Mars, you'll need quite a good telescope to see it.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    That depends. How big a nuke are we lighting it up with?

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  • The Muffin ManThe Muffin Man Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Tofystedeth wrote: »
    That depends. How big a nuke are we lighting it up with?
    It depends if we spend our entire budget on Aerosmith and Bruce Willis or not.

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  • deowolfdeowolf is allowed to do that. Traffic.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The Muffin Man wrote: »
    Tofystedeth wrote: »
    That depends. How big a nuke are we lighting it up with?
    It depends if we spend our entire budget on Aerosmith and Bruce Willis or not.

    What else is there to spend money on, really?

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  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Tycho Brahe is such a fun astronomer to read about. Not only was he the most meticilous worker to ever get the grand idea of things so utterly wrong (Despite Tycho having collected all the data, he could not be convinced of heliocentricity by his assistant Kepler), he also is the only astronomer I know of to actually have held a dwarf at his court. And a tame elk.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    SanderJK wrote: »
    Tycho Brahe is such a fun astronomer to read about. Not only was he the most meticilous worker to ever get the grand idea of things so utterly wrong (Despite Tycho having collected all the data, he could not be convinced of heliocentricity by his assistant Kepler), he also is the only astronomer I know of to actually have held a dwarf at his court. And a tame elk.

    How could you not mention his metal nose?

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Or his really weird death?

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