Asteroidal occultations of bright stars (2010-2012)

    Date        UT     Dia  Durn  Star       Star        Asteroid              Visibility
Year Mon dd  hh:mm-mm   km  secs   mag   HIP #  Name     No. Name                region
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2010 Mar 21   0:00-04   64   4.7   5.6   61968  31 Vir  1356 Nyanza      Kazahstan, Russia
2010 Mar 23  13:38-45   52   4.2   5.7   34267 HR 2660  2617 Jiangxi     Siberia, Japan
2010 Apr 06  10:30-40   34   8.6   2.6   81377 zet Oph   824 Anastasia   West USA, Canada
2010 Apr 11   2:53-57   31   1.7   6.0   34002 HR 2647   995 Sternberga  USA
2010 Jun 11   7:06-10   69   3.4   4.6  114144  55 Peg   547 Praxedis    Equador,Colombia,Vnzuela
2010 Jun 25   8:12-28   73   7.1   5.6   95503 chi3Sgr   177 Irma        Argent,Chile,New Zealand
2010 Jul 07  23:00-10   58   4.6   4.0   97804 eta Aql   904 Rockefellia India, C.Africa
2010 Jul 08  22:00-14   47   5.2   2.8   79593 del Oph   472 Roma        W.Europe, E.Brazil
2010 Aug 08   9:14-22   54   4.8   3.5   93864 tau Sgr  2312 Duboshin    New Guinea
2010 Sep 06  13:48-54   30   3.0   5.3    2762  BU Cet  4813 Terebizh    Australia
2010 Nov 15   4:40-48   33   3.0   6.0   24020 ADS3730* 1889 Pakhmutova  Brazil,Bolivia,Peru
2010 Nov 26   3:36-38   30   1.3   6.0  107302  45 Cap  1736 Floirac     Mexico, Florida
2010 Nov 29   5:45-53   27   2.6   4.8   25539 114 Tau* 1674 Groeneveld  Brazil, Peru
2010 Dec 07  22:39-43  131   5.4   5.4  109472  38 Aqr   356 Liguria     N.Brazil, W.Africa
2011 Feb 17  23:30-32   29   1.2   5.8   83196  26 Oph  3157 Novikov     Mozambique, Madagascar
2011 Apr 01   0:45-59   36   3.3   5.9   64445 FK 3053  1582 Martir      S.Africa, Brazil
2011 Jul 28   1:56-58   73   2.2   3.9   20455 del1Tau*  380 Fiducia     Sudan, S.Arabia
2011 Jul 30   7:46-48   38   1.6   5.1   16322   4 Tau  1693 Hertzsprung Mexico, Cuba
2011 Aug 27  19:12-28   25   1.9   5.3  107095  BY Cap  1340 Yvette      Indonesia, S.Africa
2011 Aug 31  20:02-04   32   1.0   4.3   69427 kap Vir  2271 Kiso        Spain, Morocco, Algeria
2011 Oct 09   7:43-48   68   7.5   2.6   28380 tet Aur  3564 Talthybius  Argent, Paraguay, Brazil
2012 Jan 07  12:11-13   36   1.1   4.4  114855 psi1Aqr  1517 Beograd     China, Korea
2012 Feb 09   9:18-20   36   1.1   4.3    3693 zet And* 4768 Hartley     SE Russia, Japan
2012 Apr 25  17:12-14   70   2.3   5.3   32104  26 Gem   441 Bathilde    W.Siberia
2012 Jul 25  18:55-59   60   6.6   5.3  115126 ADS16672* 816 Juliana     Australia, Indonesia
2012 Sep 16  20:11-12   52   1.5   2.8   72622 alf2Lib*  363 Padua       W.Africa
2012 Nov 04  18:27-30   28   1.9   5.4  104974  29 Cap  1389 Onnie       Iceland
2012 Dec 17  22:55-59   57   5.1   5.4   19719  46 Tau*  631 Philippina  NE Europe to Florida
2012 Dec 27  19:08-26   79   8.9   4.0   20885 tet1Tau  1107 Lictoria    China,Russia,Scandinavia
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Comments

- Search limited to numbered asteroids over 25 km and durations over 1 sec
- Paths are VERY preliminary and may shift by thousand km and even more
* double or multiple star
- Nyanza event starts at 23:57 UT on Mar. 20, 2010
- Rockefellia event starts at 22:57 UT
- Roma event starts at 21:57 UT
- Juliana event ends at 19:05 UT
- Philippina event ends at 23:07 UT
- tau Sgr - K1III class star (d~5mas), D and R may last up to 1 sec
- 55 Peg - giant variable star (M2III), D and R may last up to 0.5 sec
- del Oph - giant variable star (M0.5III), D and R may last up to 2 sec
- tet 1 Tau - K0IIIb class star (d~4mas), D and R may last up to 1 sec
- Events observed so far are listed here (16 as of Sep. 7, 2004)

Links

Events for 2007-2009
Events for 2003-2006
Asteroid occultation updates by Steve Preston
World results of observations by Jan Manek
Page created: June 15th, 2003 19:00+0400
Last updated: Sep. 7th, 2004 17:00+0400

Denis Denissenko (denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru)